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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."

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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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"If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens."
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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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"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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"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."
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