A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday, as I have thought of it, as I remember all the things from childhood on through the years, good ones and unpleasant ones, that is how they come out and that is how we have to take them.

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

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.

Life is what you make it.

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.