People should take time to be happy.
I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me.
Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren.
If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.
Someone has asked me to paint Biblical pictures, and I say no, I'll not paint something that we know nothing about, might just as well paint something that will happen two thousand years hence.
Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy.