L. S. Lowry quotes

“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 Quotes #Easy Quotes #Scene Quotes

“A bachelor lives like a king and dies like a beggar.”
-- L. S. Lowry

#Marriage Quotes #Kings Quotes #Bachelors Quotes

“If people call me a Sunday painter I'm a Sunday painter who paints every day of the week!”
-- L. S. Lowry

#Sunday Quotes #People Quotes #Week Quotes

“You don't need brains to be a painter, just feelings.”
-- L. S. Lowry

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

#Feelings Quotes #Brain Quotes #Needs Quotes

“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 Quotes #Men Quotes #Blue Quotes

“I'll always be grateful to rent collecting. I've put many of the tenants in my pictures.”
-- L. S. Lowry

#Grateful Quotes #Tenants Quotes #Collecting Quotes

“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 Quotes #Way Quotes #Painting Quotes

“I'm a simple man, and I use simple materials.”
-- L. S. Lowry

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

#Simple Quotes #Men Quotes #Use Quotes

“It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.”

“The angel came, the angel saw, the angel fell.”

“I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul.”

Source : Alexej von Jawlensky, Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen (1994). “Alexej von Jawlensky: 25/9-27/11/1994, Museum Boymans-van-Beuningen, Rotterdam”, Univ of Washington Pr

“It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy.”

“It's not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.”

“It's never really fun to have to cry in a scene or anything like that.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“I don't really go to fashion parties; they're not my scene.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I'm sure every film it's going to be like, 'Okay, this is the scene where your shirt gets ripped off.' I'll never be able to keep my shirt on.”

“Do you remember a scene with Ryan and Ali playing in the snow? Well, that was improvised.”

“My first scene was a streaking scene, I had to streak at a footy game, thats how I get introduced.”