"What a strange thing is memory, and hope;
one looks backward, 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

". . . daydreams, as it were . . .
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

"If I didn't start painting,
I would have raised chickens."
-Grandma Moses

"I have written my life in small sketches,
a little today, a little yesterday . . .
I look back on my life 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

"A primitive artist
is an amateur whose work sells."
-Grandma Moses

"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

"And life is what we make It.
Always has been, always will be."
-Grandma Moses