Bob Ross Quotes

What can be painted can be punished.

You know me, I think there ought to be a big old tree right there. And let's give him a friend. Everybody needs a friend.

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

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.

lets get a little crazy here

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.

on AWS there are no mistakes, only happy little catastrophes

This is your bravery test. You worked so hard and then a crazy-haired guy tells you to throw in a big ol' tree on top of it all.
Take a two-inch brush...

Lets build a happy little cloud.
Lets build some happy little trees.

There are no mistakes, just happy accidents.

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

If what you're doing doesn't make you happy, you're doing the wrong thing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

We want our happy little clouds to float across the sky

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

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

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.'

No pressure. Just relax and watch it happen.

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

You can do anything your heart can imagine.

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

Just let go - and fall like a little waterfall

Whatever makes you happy, you put in your world.

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.

The least little bit can do so much.

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

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.

I don't intimidate anyone.

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.

There are no mistakes, only happy accidents.

We dont make mistakes. We have happy accidents.

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

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.

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 ...

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

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.

Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers.

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.

Traditionally, art has been for the select few.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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