Grandma Moses
Grandma Moses
Anna Mary Robertson Moses, known by her nickname Grandma Moses, was a renowned American folk artist. Having begun painting in earnest at the age of 78, she is often cited as an example of an individual successfully beginning a career in the arts at an advanced age. Her works have been shown and sold in the United States and abroad and have been marketed on greeting cards and other merchandise. Moses' paintings are among the collections of many museums. The...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth7 September 1860
CountryUnited States of America
Life is what you make it.
I like to paint something that leads me on and on into the unknown, something that I want to see away on beyond ...
If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.
A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.
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.
Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren.
People should take time to be happy.
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.
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.
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.
I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.