Jim Rowe Quotes

#1. Jim Rowe and George Reedy had made him understand the growing importance in liberal intellectual circles of thirty-nine-year-old Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., a noted Harvard historian with a gift for incisive phrasemaking,

Robert A. Caro

#2. I've been that celebrity on the red carpet, and I appreciate that something hasn't got to just look good from the front, from the back, it's got to look good at all angles.

Victoria Beckham

#3. Further devastation of the air, land and sea is obviously a very real possibility, unless the attitudes of politicians and all who irresponsibly exploit our natural resources change significantly in the very near future and all collaborate and sacrifice for the good of the planet.

Viggo Mortensen

#4. Being a student in an art & design school, that was the moment for me, that was when I began to develop a lot of self-confidence and really come into my own.

Tim Gunn

#5. 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

#6. I had been stockpiling Gospel songs for other artists, and had planned to submit them to Gospel artists.

Smokey Robinson

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

Jim Rowe

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species.

Thomas Paine

#15. Boys will be boys, but girls are supposed to be careful: of our bodies, of our futures, of all the ways people judge us.

Jenny Han

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality.

Harold Nicolson

#19. I could make it not matter.

Ellen Kushner

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

Jim Rowe