L. S. Lowry

"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 gon…"

"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 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 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"

"Without knowing what it was, I had an instinctive feeling that the time had come to drop industrials .Now I feel more strongly than ever that the figures stand on their own two feet."

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

"I am not an artist just someone who paints."