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

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

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

- Grandma Moses

Life is what you make it.

- Grandma Moses

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 k…

- 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

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

- Grandma Moses

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…

- Grandma Moses

People should take time to be happy.

- Grandma Moses