Bob Ross Quotes
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Trees don't grow even, they don't grow straight just however it makes them happy.
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We show people that anybody can paint a picture that they're proud of. It may never hang in the Smithsonian, but it will certainly be something that they'll hang in their home and be proud of. And that's what it's all about.
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We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.
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The lean and mean fighting machines, we're beyond that.
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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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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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Talent is a pursued interest. In other words, anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.
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The secret to doing anything is believing you can do it.
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I never turn down requests for interviews. I'm just rarely asked.
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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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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.
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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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Happy painting and God Bless, my friend.
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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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All around the top, it was covered in flames. It's depressing.
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We dont make mistakes. We have happy accidents.
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Use absolutely no pressure. Just like an angel's wing.
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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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If I paint something, I don't want to have to explain what it is.
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Just let go - and fall like a little waterfall.
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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.
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Everyone is going to see things differently - and that's the way it should be.
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Remember, you can do anything in your world that you want to.