Bob Ross Quotes

#1. I believe, I believe every day is a good day when you paint.

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#2. I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.

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#3. We dont make mistakes. We have happy accidents.

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#4. It's so important to do something every day that will make you happy

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#5. Believe that you can do it cause you can do it.

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#6. 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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#7. Everybody has dreams. You are living the American dream, what's wrong with pushing to secure it for everyone?

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#8. 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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#9. Ever make mistakes in life? Let's make them birds. Yeah, they're birds now.

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#10. Remember, you can do anything in your world that you want to.

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#11. The secret to doing anything is believing that you can do it. Anything that you believe you can do strong enough, you can do. Anything. As long as you believe.

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#12. I don't intimidate anyone.

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#13. Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.

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#14. 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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#15. This is your world
You're the creator
Find freedom on this canvas
Believe, that you can do it,
'Cuz you can do it.
You can do it.

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#16. Happy painting and God Bless, my friend.

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#17. wash the brush, just beats the devil out of it

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#18. Let's build us a happy, little cloud that floats around the sky.

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#19. We don't make mistakes, we just have happy accidents.

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#20. Don't be afraid to scrape the paint off and do it again. This is the way you learn, trial and error, over and over, repetition. It pays you great dividends, great, great dividends.

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#21. You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

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#22. 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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#23. We want our happy little clouds to float across the sky

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#24. People see you on television, and they think you make the same amount of money that Clint Eastwood does. But this is PBS. All these shows are done for free.

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#25. If you study my paintings, there are no signs of human life.

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#26. There's nothing in the world that breeds success like success.

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#27. 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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#28. Lets build a happy little cloud.
Lets build some happy little trees.

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#29. I don't intimidate anyone. Instead, I try to get people to believe in themselves.

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#30. 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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#31. Little more black, little more blue. And we'll just put that in using little crisscross strokes or
or little X's, whatever you want to call them. Whatever.

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#32. Never think about the mistakes you made. Think about the mistakes you will make.

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#33. Everyone is going to see things differently - and that's the way it should be.

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#34. If you do too much it's going to lose its effectiveness.

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#35. We have no limits to our world. We're only limited by our imagination.

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#36. There are no mistakes, just happy accidents.

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#37. Gotta have opposites, light and dark and dark and light, in painting. It's like in life. Gotta have a little sadness once in awhile so you know when the good times come. I'm waiting on the good times now.

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#38. It's the imperfections that make something beautiful, that's what makes it different and unique from everything else.

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#39. If you learned how to make a cloud, your time is not wasted.

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#40. You can do ANYTHING you want to do-This is your World

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#41. People might look at you a bit funny, but it's okay. Artists are allowed to be a bit different.

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#42. No pressure. Just relax and watch it happen.

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#43. There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.

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#44. Whatever makes you happy, you put in your world.

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#45. They say everything looks better with odd numbers of things. But sometimes I put even numbers - just to upset the critics.

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#46. I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn't know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.

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#47. I never turn down requests for interviews. I'm just rarely asked.

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#48. In painting, you have unlimited power. You have the ability to move mountains. You can bend rivers. But when i get home the only thing i have power over is the garbage.

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#49. Just let go - and fall like a little waterfall

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#50. Trees don't grow even, they don't grow straight just however it makes them happy.

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#51. Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers.

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#52. You can do anything your heart can imagine.

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#53. Talk to the tree, make friends with it.

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#54. 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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#55. I really believe that if you practice enough you could paint the 'Mona Lisa' with a two-inch brush.

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#56. Trees cover up a multitude of sins.

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#57. There are no mistakes, only happy accidents.

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#58. We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.

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#59. The least little bit can do so much.

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#60. We don't laugh because we feel good; we feel good because we laugh.

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#61. Let's get crazy.

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#62. Tender as a mothers love ... And with my mother, that was certainly true.

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#63. Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.

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#64. I stay hidden. I'm sort of hard to find.

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#65. Think about a cloud. Just float around and be there.

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#66. People look at me like I'm a little strange, when I go around talking to squirrels and rabbits and stuff. That's ok. That's just ok.

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#67. There are thousands of very, very talented artists who will never be known, even after they are dead.

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#68. 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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#69. Possessing talent is nothing more than the continuous pursuit of a life-long interest.

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#70. We artists are a different breed of people. We're a happy bunch.

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#71. If I paint something, I don't want to have to explain what it is.

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#72. All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.

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#73. Use absolutely no pressure. Just like an angel's wing.

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#74. Everyday's a good day when you paint

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#75. It's hard to see things when you're too close. Take a step back and look.

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#76. Mix up a little more shadow color here, then we can put us a little shadow right in there. See how you can move things around? You have unlimited power on this canvas
can literally, literally move mountains

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#77. Now then, let's come right down in here and put some nice big strong arms on these trees. Tree needs an arm too. It'll hold up the weight of the forest. Little bird has to have a place to set there. There he goes ...

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#78. Traditionally, art has been for the select few.

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#79. We get letters every day from people wanting more mountains. As many as I paint, they still say, 'Give me more mountains.'

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#80. lets get a little crazy here

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