If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.

- Grandma Moses

Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren.

- Grandma Moses

I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday, as I have thought of it, as I remember all the things from childhood on…

- Grandma Moses

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…

- Grandma Moses

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

- Grandma Moses

I like to paint something that leads me on and on into the unknown, something that I want to see away on beyond.

- Grandma Moses

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 s…

- Grandma Moses

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

- Grandma Moses

I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me.

- Grandma Moses