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

~Grandma Moses

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

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

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

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A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: September 7th, 1860

Died: December 13th, 1961

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