L. S. Lowry

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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"

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

"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."

"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."