"I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I ge…"

"I'll get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and …"

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

"I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and th…"

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

"I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday, as I have thought of it, as I remember …"

"The death of Grandma Moses removed a beloved figure from American life. The directness and vividness of her paintings…"

"There emanates from her paintings a light-hearted optimism; the world she shows us is beautiful and it is good. You f…"

"In person, Grandma Moses charmed wherever she went. A tiny, lively woman with mischievous gray eyes and a quick wit, …"

"For him delicious flavors dwell In books as in old Muscatel."