Bob Ross Quotes
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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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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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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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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 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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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.
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Everyone is going to see things differently - and that's the way it should be.
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If you study my paintings, there are no signs of human life.
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The secret to doing anything is believing you can do it.
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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 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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Just let go - and fall like a little waterfall.
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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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One of the questions that I hear over and over and over is, 'What do we do with all these paintings we do on television?' Most of these paintings are donated to PBS stations across the country. They auction them off, and they make a happy buck with 'em.
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If you learned how to make a cloud, your time is not wasted.
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If you do too much it's going to lose its effectiveness.
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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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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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The lean and mean fighting machines, we're beyond that.
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There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.
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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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Remember, you can do anything in your world that you want to.
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I believe, I believe every day is a good day when you paint.