List of Grandma Moses Quotes

Someone Has Asked Me To Paint Biblical Pictures, And I Say No, I'll Not Paint Something That We Know Nothing About, Might Just As Well Paint Something That Will Happen Two Thousand Years Hence.

I Have Written My Life In Small Sketches, A Little Today, A Little Yesterday, As I Have Thought Of It, As I Remember All The Things From Childhood On Through The Years, Good Ones And Unpleasant Ones, That Is How They Come Out And That Is How We Have To Take Them.

If You Know Somethin' Well, You Can Always Paint It But People Would Be Better Off Buyin' Chickens.

I Don't Advise Any One To Take It [painting] Up As A Business Proposition, Unless They Really Have Talent... But I Will Say That I Have Did Remarkable For One Of My Years, And Experience.

Memory Is A Painter. Paintin's Not Important. The Important Thing Is Keepin' Busy.

A Primitive Artist Is An Amateur Whose Work Sells.

I Would Never Sit Back In A Rocking Chair, Waiting For Someone To Help Me.

If I Hadn't Started Painting, I Would Have Raised Chickens.

I Paint From The Top Down. From The Sky, Then The Mountains, Then The Hills, Then The Houses, Then The Cattle, And Then The People.

Even Now / I Am Not Old. / I Never Think Of It, And Yet / I Am A Grandmother To Eleven Grandchildren.

I'll Get An Inspiration And Start Painting; Then I'll Forget Everything, Everything Except How Things Used To Be And How To Paint It So People Will Know How We Used To Live.

Life Is What You Make It.