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Grandma Moses

painter, illustrator, embroiderer, artist

1860 – 1961

Anna Mary Robertson Moses, or Grandma Moses, was an American folk artist. She began painting in earnest at the age of 78 and is a prominent example of a newly successful art career at an advanced age. Moses gained popularity during the 1950s, having been featured on a cover of Time Magazine in 1953. She was a subject of numerous television programs and of a 1950 Oscar-nominated biographical documentary. Her autobiography, titled My Life's History, was published in 1952. She was also awarded two honorary doctoral degrees.

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

Grandma Moses

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

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

Grandma Moses

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

Grandma Moses

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.

Grandma Moses

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.

Grandma Moses

Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.

Grandma Moses

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.

Grandma Moses

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Grandma Moses

If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.

Grandma Moses