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Grandma Moses

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And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.


— Grandma Moses


#life #inspirational

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


— Grandma Moses


#am #back #day #done #good

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


— Grandma Moses


#better #better off #chickens #know #off

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


— Grandma Moses


#hadn #i #painting #raised #started

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


— Grandma Moses


#been #life #make #will

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


— Grandma Moses


#important #important thing #keeping #painting #thing

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


#color #different #eyes #get #greens

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


#down #hills #houses #i #mountains

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.


— Grandma Moses


#artist #primitive #sells #whose #work






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Painting
According to art historian Judith Stein Grandma Moses was "practical at heart turning to painting in her seventies after working with worsted wools for embroidered compositions" which risked being eaten by moths. A U.

Her images of America's rural past were transferred to curtains dresses cookie jars and dinner ware and used to pitch cigarettes cameras lipstick and instant coffee. "
During the 1950s Grandma Moses' exhibitions were so popular that they broke attendance records all over the world.

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