Grandma Moses Quotes

Grandma Moses — American Artist born on September 07, 1860, died on December 13, 1961

Anna Mary Robertson Moses, known by her nickname Grandma Moses, was a renowned American folk artist. Having begun painting in earnest at the age of 78, she is often cited as an example of an individual successfully beginning a career in the arts at an advanced age. Her works have been shown and sold in the United States and abroad and have been marketed on greeting cards and other merchandise. Moses' paintings are among the collections of many museums. The Sugaring Off was sold for US$1.2 million in 2006... (wikipedia)

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

Grandma Moses Quotes

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