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 convicti…

- Jim Rowe

If a person really believes they need some kind of special inherited talent or proper-sided brain functioning, this will interfere with their product…

- Jim Rowe

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

- Jim Rowe

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

- Jim Rowe

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 …

- Jim Rowe

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…

- Jim Rowe

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 …

- Jim Rowe

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 winne…

- Jim Rowe

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 …

- Jim Rowe