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All my people are lonely. Crowds are the most lonely thing of all.
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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.
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I don't pretend to be a gentleman, but I am entitled to paint what I see
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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A street is not a street without people.. the composition was incidental to the people.
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An artist can't produce great art unless he has a philosophy. He can't say something unlee he has something to say.
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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
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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.
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You don't need brains to be a painter, just feelings
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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.
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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.
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There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
L. S. Lowry
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Born:
November 1, 1887
Died:
February 23, 1976
(aged 88)
Bio:
Laurence Stephen Lowry was an English artist. Many of his drawings and paintings depict Pendlebury, Lancashire, where he lived and worked for more than 40 years, and also Salford and its surrounding areas.
Known for:
Industrial Landscape (1955)
Going to the Match (1928)
Britain at Play
Coming from the Mill (1930)
Portrait of Ann (1957)
L. S. Lowry on Wikipedia
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