L. S. Lowry: Quotes about painting

L. S. Lowry was British visual artist. Explore interesting quotes on painting.

L. S. Lowry: 24 quotes6 likes

“I am not an artist just someone who paints.”

Interview tapes Cotton & Mullineux

“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

Tynes Tees Television Interview 1968

“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

Tape interview with Monty Bloom L. S. Lowry - A Biography by Shelley Rhode Lowry Press 1999 ISBN 9781902970011.
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“I don't pretend to be a gentleman, but I am entitled to paint what I see”

L. S. Lowry

Interview tapes with G B Cotton & Frank Mullineux (undated)L. S. Lowry - A Biography by Shelley Rhode Lowry Press 1999 ISBN 9781902970011.
Interview tapes Cotton & Mullineux

“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

Letter of 1967 and 1970 to Prime Ministers Wilson and Heath declining knighthood.L. S. Lowry - A Biography by Shelley Rhode Lowry Press 1999 ISBN 9781902970011.
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