Bob Ross Quotes
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Possessing talent is nothing more than the continuous pursuit of a life-long interest.
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We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.
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I guess I’m a little weird. I like to talk to trees and animals. That’s okay though; I have more fun than most people.
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I tell people, 'You can do this.' And they write back and say, 'You were right. I can do this. And now I believe I can do anything.'
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Put light against light - you have nothing. Put dark against dark - you have nothing. It's the contrast of light and dark that each give the other one meaning.
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Trees don't grow even, they don't grow straight just however it makes them happy.
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I never turn down requests for interviews. I'm just rarely asked.
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I don't know if anything in nature ever grows exactly the same, but they are always exactly as the way it should be, perfectly itself.
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The secret to doing anything is believing you can do it.
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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.
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We train one-quarter of the commercial pilots in the United States, so when we heard about this tragedy we knew the odds were good one of pilots would be involved. It turns out maybe some that were not authorized to fly were also pilots.
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Talent is a pursued interest. In other words, anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.
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If I paint something, I don't want to have to explain what it is.
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Everyone is going to see things differently - and that's the way it should be.
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I was the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you make your bed, the guy who screams at you for being late to work. The job requires you to be a mean, tough person. And I was fed up with it. I promised myself that if I ever got away from it, it wasn't going to be that way any more.
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Happy painting and God Bless, my friend.
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I have to paint fast on television because of the limited time, but I don't want people to see what I'm showing them as work, something to worry and fret over. This is supposed to be fun.
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People might look at you a bit funny, but it's okay. Artists are allowed to be a bit different.
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Just let go - and fall like a little waterfall.
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If you study my paintings, there are no signs of human life.
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The lean and mean fighting machines, we're beyond that.
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If you do too much it's going to lose its effectiveness.
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If you learned how to make a cloud, your time is not wasted.
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I've never claimed that this is investment art. When we first started out, all the art colleges and universities across the country would sort of badmouth what we were doing. It's funny that a lot of them now are sending us letters saying, 'We may not totally agree with the way you paint, but we appreciate what you're doing, because you're sending literally thousands of people into art colleges.