Jim Rowe famous quotes

It's interesting to see the world's fascination with a troubled artist. The artists sure wouldn't share their enthusiasm.
-- Jim Rowe

#Artist #Interesting #Fascination

Make a small painting of what you want to do... and project it up on a white wall... The enlarged version is so changed that there is no way of just visualizing it in the brain... It's a whole new dimension in painting.
-- Jim Rowe

#Wall #Technology #White

If a person really believes they need some kind of special inherited talent or proper-sided brain functioning, this will interfere with their productivity. I don't want to know what side of the brain I am using.
-- Jim Rowe

#Believe #Brain #Special

Success is the 'discovery,' the creation of an idea, pulling something out of the depths of your mind that never existed before. To further complete that success, a painting is made as a communication tool for that idea.
-- Jim Rowe

#Communication #Discovery #Ideas

What influenced my style was the feeling that I was a lousy artist... I was like the ugly duckling, not knowing what I was, style-wise, and thinking I was all on my own... I evolved into a style that couldn't be compared to anyone else.
-- Jim Rowe

#Wise #Artist #Thinking

Faith is the physical description of God. That's what He is. It's the only word we have in our language to accurately describe His physical form.
-- Jim Rowe

#Language #Form #Description

Not everybody paints what the public will pay for. The method in which an artist receives money is nobody's business, what matters is that paintings are produced.
-- Jim Rowe

#Artist #What Matters #Pay

Not worrying about the cost of materials and tools extends my artistic freedom.
-- Jim Rowe

#Worry #Tools #Cost

Van Gogh is the best example of how a person can be on the right track, propelled by gut feeling and some kind of strange obsessive stubborn conviction, that no one seems to understand.
-- Jim Rowe

#Track #Feelings #Example

In putting everyone else down, I am raising myself up... and this will continue until my self-esteem rises. I have just sorted out the mystery of why I am always putting down everybody else's artwork.
-- Jim Rowe

#Self Esteem #Mystery #Artwork

I just paint to fulfill an urge. When I don't have the urge, I just don't paint. This is not some stupid contest. But if it is, I feel like the winner that came in last.
-- Jim Rowe

#Stupid #Winning #Lasts