My in the mind has been itchy, very curious:
What kind of mood makes a rural grandmother famous at the age of nearly 80?
What kind of mood can make her create customized paintings that are popular all over the world?
Grandma Moses is a typical late bloomer in American art history. The following is the peak of her life.
At the age of 58, Grandma Moses, who had never received professional training, started painting by accident, and the more he painted, the better.
At the age of 78, a travel collector found her paintings in the grocery store and introduced her paintings to the world. A few months later, Grandma Moses made exciting achievements.
After holding a solo exhibition in new york at the age of 80, his works sold well in Europe and America.
At the age of 89, she was awarded the American Women's Global Club Award and received by President Truman.
At the age of 96, he was commissioned by President Eisenhower's Cabinet to paint to commemorate the third anniversary of his inauguration.
Grandma Moses, 100 years old, enlightened the Japanese writer Junichi Watanabe who later became a world-class literary master; Grandma Moses's birthday became "Grandma Moses Day" in New York State.
Grandma Moses died at the age of 10 1, and was praised as "an artist deeply loved by the American people" by then President Kennedy.
The book "Life is only once, do what you like" is a classic of Grandma Moses's life. It is like a hot spring of the soul, which brings inspiration and encouragement to the confused young people.
Many young people will write to Grandma Moses to express their confusion and anxiety. The most common questions are:
How can you suddenly choose to pick up a brush after decades of life, in order to fulfill your dream when you were young? They don't know whether they should bravely give up a stable life and do what they like, like me.
In fact, people always have too many wishes in their lives, but little time. We tried to do everything we wanted, but in the end we found that we didn't do anything well.
This discovery makes us feel inexplicable sadness and panic.
Think about my long life, I had many good wishes, but I didn't do anything well in the end.
That's because our energy is limited and we can't turn all our wishes into reality.
You are afraid and worried because you are not satisfied. Your life list is full of things you want to do.
Calm down, put the list aside and think carefully about what is most important to you and what you really want to do. Think about it, do what you like and do it well.
I remember Dong Mingzhu, the chairman of Gree Electric, said that Gree Electric stuck to his original intention when he saw others making money by investing in real estate and finance. Technology is the foundation of his life. Do a good job in science and technology and R&D, and let the world fall in love with Made in China.
From 2065438 to 2009, Gree Electric's sales revenue exceeded 200 billion, and its net profit reached more than 20 billion, which perfectly delivered the answer sheet of continuous growth in performance.
And most of us ordinary people, seeing other people's scenery, always feel better than our own. Their eyes are always fixed on other people's scenery, and they are always eager to have scenery as beautiful as others.
So they tried their best to walk on other people's roads, but when they came to other people's roads, they found so many scenery here, so they began to look for new scenery.
People spend their whole lives searching, but when they get old, they can't find the scenery they want, but they waste their whole lives.
Grandma Moses told us that the focus of life is to find your own scenery, find what you are most willing to do, and keep going along this road.
Speaking of which, I am reflecting on where my scenery is. I am a person who loves reading. I can stay in the library for five or six hours, forget to drink water, forget that I haven't had lunch at three o'clock in the afternoon, and forget that the students sitting next to me just now are gone.
I like reading and writing books, which is my favorite scenery. I'll keep going. These little shimmers will gradually become stronger one day, but asking about the process, but asking about the experience, ignoring the results, secular ideas are the performance of restless hearts, and the ending will not be much better. If the heart is right, the world is right.
The so-called dream road of life is just an inner insistence on trivial matters such as daily necessities.
The length and shortness of life, the splendor and dullness of life have nothing to do with others. Only your own heart can control your destiny.
One day, Grandma Moses opened a letter from Japan.
The author's name is Chunshui Shanghang. He said that he loved literature very much since he was a child and wanted to work as a writer, but his family didn't want him to work related to literature. They hope that he can find a more stable job.
So under the pressure of his family, he chose a job in a hospital, and time passed day by day. Instead of falling in love with this job, he loves literature more and more.
The young man named Chunshui Shanghang confided in anguish that he was almost 30 years old and didn't know how to choose, whether to choose a stable life or to choose what he liked to do.
Grandma Moses wrote back to him that if you do what you like, God will be happy to help you open the door to success, even if you are over 80 years old now. I hope you can follow your inner choice.
Every day you don't like will not be yours. Life is not what you want, no matter how stable and beautiful it is, it is not a real life.
Haystacks piled high in the wall, small puddles on the ground, sleepy dogs by the fence, and poultry that stand out in front of the henhouse … all these make me happy. I will draw them into my paintings, and these paintings will also make people who see my works happy.
I spent every second of my life happily, and I put my happiness into every little thing.
When I saw my grandson grow his first tooth, I felt the happiness of a new life;
When I heard my granddaughter call grandma in a childish and lovely voice, I felt the happiness of family happiness;
Whenever I start to create a painting, or I am about to finish a painting, I will feel the joy of enriching my life.
Some people will ask Grandma Moses: Did you learn to paint because you were not satisfied with your present life?
Grandma Moses said that he has always been satisfied with his life, but I just don't want to leave my heart empty.
When I was 80 years old, I tried to paint, not because I thought painting was actually a necessary job, nor because painting was indispensable to me.
I think everything I do seems so dull, but because I do everything in my life with happiness, warm flowers bloom in my life journey, and not only myself but also others can smell my happiness fragrance.
Happiness is when you don't know the meaning of happiness, and your heart is full of happiness.
What touched my heart after reading this sentence is that you can't be happy without success. As long as you have eyes to find happiness, you can get a lot of happiness.
For example, on a warm winter day, sitting on a spacious balcony with a book, while reading, listening to the author's tortuous life story and chewing those golden sentences with life philosophy, I feel as if I have lived a little more. This little inner joy is a kind of happiness in itself.
When I sat quietly on the balcony, my eyes were wide open. I saw the red lanterns hanging on the branches with a strong flavor of the year, looked at the innocent faces of children playing on the lawn, tasted an elegant pot of small tea made by my son, and tasted afternoon tea with beautiful and carefully selected saucers. ...
At this point, my chest is full of little comfort, I am integrated with myself, and I am really flowing time.
Every short time you don't like is never really yours.
Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, I am white-haired and die. Don't live up to God's good time for you.
Yu Hua said that what you have is exactly what the dead people envy. Please cherish this fleeting time!
Grandma Moses was asked if he had any regrets when he started painting when he was nearly 80 years old.
Grandma Moses replied that when I was young, I was passionate about painting. At that time, I didn't have a chance to pick up a pen. When I was young, I didn't have a chance to learn to draw. Then I went through a busy middle age, and finally I tried to start painting until I was old.
My dream of painting really came true when I was over 80 years old, but I don't think my previous life was wasted.
I always wanted to paint until I was 76. Many people will give up because of all kinds of worries, but I started just because I wanted to paint.
Sometimes you don't need to think too much about this matter. Everything you want to do can be done in the end, and you will eventually become the person you want to be, but only if you dare to press the start button and embrace the future according to your own life.
I don't want to waste time repeating other people's lives. I want to be myself and do what I really want to do.
When I first started painting, my paintings were not appreciated. They hung in the flower shop and were covered with dust, and nobody cared.
Tell yourself that it doesn't matter, I still insist on drawing, drawing according to what I think, and don't let other people's voices drown out my inner desire to draw.
It doesn't matter what others say about me. In the last few decades of my life, I think the most important thing is to follow my inner and intuitive courage and courage. The real voice inside is the cry of your soul.
You can't have a life from scratch, and every day will reduce your happiness. If you are unhappy, what you have to think about is not why you are inferior to others, but why you feel unhappy.
Happiness and happiness can't depend on others, only on yourself. What you give yourself is what your life looks like.
If we can pour a little happiness, a little contentment, a little gratitude and a little dedication into the cup in our hearts, then everyone's life will be extremely happy.
Grandma Moses believes that the meaning of life lies not in what you finally get, but in what you experience.
When I was absorbed in reading this warm book, the 8-year-old rabbit was full of tears and choked out two words: moved.
The rabbit told her personal experience, insisted on being herself, was not influenced by others, and forgot to go her own way.
This is the second-grade pupils' understanding of Grandma Moses. His life has just begun, and he can't help crying. It's really worth it
A good book will sow tiny and powerful seeds in a child's heart and light up his long journey like a lighthouse.
Life is precious because it will never return to the starting point.
When we stand at the end of life and look back on the road we have traveled, the seeds of happiness we have sown in the past and the tiny wishes that we have achieved through hard work are slowly rising in the breeze. Is there any reason why such a life can't be happy?
There is only one life, I hope you can do what you really like and do it calmly!
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