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Grandma Moses - From the Business category:
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. (Grandma Moses)
Grandma Moses - From the Commerce category:
A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells. (Grandma Moses)
Grandma Moses - From the Hope category:
What a strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. (Grandma Moses)
Grandma Moses - From the Imagination category:
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)
Grandma Moses - From the Importance category:
Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy. (Grandma Moses)
Grandma Moses - From the Inspiration category:
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)
Grandma Moses - From the Life category:
I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday... I look back on my life as a good day's work, it was done and I feel satisfied with it. I made the best out of what life offered. (Grandma Moses)
Grandma Moses - From the Life category:
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. (Grandma Moses)
Grandma Moses - From the Memory category:
Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter; it paints pictures of the past and of the day. (Grandma Moses)
Grandma Moses - From the Methodology category:
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)
Grandma Moses - From the Painting category:
If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens. (Grandma Moses)
Grandma Moses - From the Selling category:
If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens. (Grandma Moses)
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