Anna Mary Robertson Moses (1860–1961,) better known as “Grandma Moses”, was a renowned American folk artist. She is often cited as an example of an individual successfully beginning a career in the arts at an advanced age. Her family and friends called her either “Mother Moses” or “Grandma Moses”, and although she first exhibited as “Mrs. Moses”, the press eagerly dubbed her “Grandma Moses”, which stuck. LIFE magazine celebrated her 100th birthday by featuring her on its September 19, 1960 cover.
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Now that I am ninety-five years old, looking back over the years, I have seen many changes taking place, so many inventions have been made. Things now go faster. In olden times things were not so rushed. I think people were more content, more satisfied with life than they are today. You don’t hear nearly as much laughter and shouting as you did in my day, and what was fun for us wouldn’t be fun now…. In this age I don’t think people are as happy, they are worried. They’re too anxious to get ahead of their neighbors, they are striving and striving to get something better. I do think in a way that they have too much now. We did with much less.
—Grandma Moses
Topics: Worry
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
—Grandma Moses
Topics: Living, Life
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