Grandma Moses Quotes
American - Artist September 7, 1860 - December 13, 1961

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.
Grandma Moses

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

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

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.
Grandma Moses

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.
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

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

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


Elinor Wylie Quotes
American - Poet September 7, 1885 - December 16, 1928

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.
Elinor Wylie

In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.
Elinor Wylie

If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.
Elinor Wylie


Edith Sitwell Quotes
British - Poet September 7, 1887 - December 9, 1964


I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
Edith Sitwell

Poetry is the deification of reality.
Edith Sitwell

I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
Edith Sitwell

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Edith Sitwell

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
Edith Sitwell

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
Edith Sitwell

Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
Edith Sitwell

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
Edith Sitwell

I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.
Edith Sitwell

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
Edith Sitwell

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
Edith Sitwell

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.
Edith Sitwell

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
Edith Sitwell

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
Edith Sitwell

Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.
Edith Sitwell

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
Edith Sitwell


Buddy Holly Quotes
American - Musician September 7, 1936 - February 3, 1959

If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock'n'roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel.
Buddy Holly

Death is very often referred to as a good career move.
Buddy Holly

I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.
Buddy Holly

Without Elvis none of us could have made it.
Buddy Holly