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Grandma Moses
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“What a strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, the other forward. The one is of today, the other is of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.”
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“If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.”
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“I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I feel satisfied with it.”
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“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.”
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“I like to paint something that leads me on and on into the unknown, something that I want to see away on beyond ...”
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“Life is what we make it. Always has been. Always will be.”
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“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.”
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“A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.”
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“I paint from the top down. First the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.”
Grandma Moses, U.S. painter
(1860 - 1961)
Full name: Anna Mary “Sissy” Robertson Moses.