Top 8 Quotes by L. S. Lowry

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

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

Feelings, Brain, Needs

Interview with Frank & Vicent Tilsley, .News Chronicle & Daily Dispatch, December 1, 1955.

I saw the industrial scene and I was affected by it. I tried to paint it all the time. I tried to paint the industrial scene as best I could. It wasn’t easy.

L. S. Lowry

Saws, Easy, Scene

I am a simple man and I use simple materials: Ivory Black, Vermilion, Prussian Blue, Yellow Ochre, Flake White and no medium. That’s all I’ve ever used in my paintings.

L. S. Lowry

Simple, Men, Blue

If people call me a Sunday painter I'm a Sunday painter who paints every day of the week!

L. S. Lowry

Sunday, People, Week

I'm a simple man, and I use simple materials.

L. S. Lowry

Simple, Men, Use

In Mervyn Levy 'Paintings of L. S. Lowry' (1975) p. 11

It was the only thing I had to do. I worked to get rid of the time, even now I work for something to do. Painting is a wonderful way of getting rid of the days.

L. S. Lowry

Time, Way, Painting