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01Undated

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

Grandma Moses / quote

02Undated

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Grandma Moses / quote

03Undated

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

Grandma Moses / quote

04Undated

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

Grandma Moses / quote

05Undated

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

Grandma Moses / quote

06Undated

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 / quote

07Undated

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.

Grandma Moses / quote

08Undated

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

Grandma Moses / quote

09Undated

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

Grandma Moses / quote