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Grandma Moses [1860-1961] American
Rank: 102
Artist


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. 

Life, Art, Good, Work



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I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it. Good, Life, Work
101
If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens. Art
102
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. Life
103
Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.
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If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.
105
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.
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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.
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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.
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A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.
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