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

— Grandma Moses American Primitive : Forty Paintings (1947)

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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 know how we used to live.

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

American Primitive : Forty Paintings (1947)

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.

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

Grandma Moses : My Life's History (1951)

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

New Leaves (1986)

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