Bob Ross Quotes
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I never turn down requests for interviews. I'm just rarely asked.
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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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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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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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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.
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Oooh, if you have never been to Alaska, go there while it is still wild. My favorite uncle asked me if I wanted to go there, Uncle Sam. He said if you don't go, you're going to jail. That is how Uncle Sam asks you.
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Everyone is going to see things differently - and that's the way it should be.
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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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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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If you learned how to make a cloud, your time is not wasted.
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If you study my paintings, there are no signs of human life.
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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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Just let go - and fall like a little waterfall.
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I believe, I believe every day is a good day when you paint.
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All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.
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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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If you do too much it's going to lose its effectiveness.
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There is no doubt in my mind that he would have (killed) again.
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Remember, you can do anything in your world that you want to.
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The secret to doing anything is believing you can do it.
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We dont make mistakes. We have happy accidents.
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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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The lean and mean fighting machines, we're beyond that.
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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.