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L. S. Lowry Quotes

1887–1976 England

Laurence Stephen Lowry (1 November 1887 – 23 February 1976) was an English artist born in Stretford, Lancashire

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I see lots of people everywhere, one lot going one way and the other lot going in the opposite way, as a rule.

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

You don't need brains to be a painter, just feelings

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.

A street is not a street without people..the composition was incidental to the people.

An artist can't produce great art unless he has a philosophy.He can't say something unlee he has something to say.

I am not an artist just someone who paints.

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.

I don't pretend to be a gentleman, but I am entitled to paint what I see

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.

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.

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.

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