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L. S. Lowry
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“You cannot teach painting because everyone's colour sense is different. But drawing..you either get it right or wrong. You can tell whether people have drawn from life from their pictures.”
L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I've a one track mind, sir. Poverty and gloom. Never a joyous picture of mine you'll see.Always gloom. I never do a jolly picture.”
L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't care tuppence for what they do in London in the art world. It doesn't matter to me. I don't think of it. All I am concerned with is doing my own thing in my own way.. as well as I can.”
L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mister Lowry- interview Tyne Tees Television 1968 L. S. Lowry - A Biography by Shelley Rhode Lowry Press 1999 .
“An artist can't produce great art unless he has a philosophy.He can't say something unlee he has something to say.”
L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am not an artist just someone who paints.”
L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A street is not a street without people..the composition was incidental to the people.”
L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't pretend to be a gentleman, but I am entitled to paint what I see”
L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview tapes with G B Cotton & Frank Mullineux (undated)L. S. Lowry - A Biography by Shelley Rhode Lowry Press 1999 .
“I look upon human beings as automatons..because they all think they can do what they want but they can't.They are not free.No one is”
L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Maitland Tapes-interview with Prof. Hugh Maitland 1970 L. S. Lowry - A Biography by Shelley Rhode Lowry Press 1999 .
“You don't need brains to be a painter, just feelings”
L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) first seen 1955 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Frank & Vicent Tilsley. Lancashire Made them .News Chronicle & Daily Dispatch 1 Dec 1955.
“I see lots of people everywhere, one lot going one way and the other lot going in the opposite way, as a rule.”
L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) first seen 1943 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Response in a letter to David Carr 9 Dec 1943 concerning his style L. S. Lowry - A Biography by Shelley Rhode Lowry Press 1999 .
“Without knowing what it was, I had an instinctive feeling that the time had come to drop industrials (paintings) .Now I feel more strongly than ever that the figures stand on their own two feet.”
L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tape interview with Monty Bloom L. S. Lowry - A Biography by Shelley Rhode Lowry Press 1999 .
“All my life I have felt most strongly against social distinction of any kind. I have at all time tried to paint to the best of my ability and would only hope that any remembrance of me when I'm am gone will be base on my work.”
L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter of 1967 and 1970 to Prime Ministers Wilson and Heath declining knighthood.L. S. Lowry - A Biography by Shelley Rhode Lowry Press 1999 .