Bob Ross Quotes

on AWS there are no mistakes, only happy little catastrophes ~ Bob Ross

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

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

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

There are no mistakes, just happy accidents. ~ Bob Ross

Believe that you can do it cause you can do it. ~ Bob Ross

You can do anything your heart can imagine. ~ Bob Ross

Whatever makes you happy, you put in your world. ~ Bob Ross

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

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. ~ Bob Ross

Never think about the mistakes you made. Think about the mistakes you will make. ~ Bob Ross

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

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. ~ Bob Ross

There are no mistakes, only happy accidents. ~ Bob Ross

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

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. ~ Bob Ross

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. ~ Bob Ross

I don't intimidate anyone. ~ Bob Ross

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

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. ~ Bob Ross

Traditionally, art has been for the select few. ~ Bob Ross

Lets build a happy little cloud.
Lets build some happy little trees. ~ Bob Ross

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

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

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 ... ~ Bob Ross

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. ~ Bob Ross

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

What can be painted can be punished. ~ Bob Ross

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

Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers. ~ Bob Ross

lets get a little crazy here ~ Bob Ross

We want our happy little clouds to float across the sky ~ Bob Ross

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

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. ~ Bob Ross

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

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. ~ Bob Ross

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

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. ~ Bob Ross

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. ~ Bob Ross

The least little bit can do so much. ~ Bob Ross

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

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

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

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

No pressure. Just relax and watch it happen. ~ Bob Ross

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

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. ~ Bob Ross

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. ~ Bob Ross

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

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... ~ Bob Ross

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.' ~ Bob Ross

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

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. ~ Bob Ross

Bob Ross is my spirit animal ~ Brooke Bida

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

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

We dont make mistakes. We have happy accidents. ~ Bob Ross

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

Just let go - and fall like a little waterfall ~ Bob Ross

[Clyde Ross] was stationed in California. He found that he could go into stores without being bothered. He could walk the streets without being harassed. He could go into a restaurant and receive service. ~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

I'd always wondered why there had been no mention of psychopaths in the DSM. It turned out, Spitzer told me, that there had indeed been a backstage schism - between Bob Hare and a sociologist named Lee Robins. She believed clinicians couldn't reliably measure personality traits like empathy. She proposed dropping them from the DSM checklist and going only for overt symptoms. Bob vehemently disagreed, the DSM committee sided with Lee Robins, and Psychopathy was abandoned for Antisocial Personality Disorder. ~ Jon Ronson

Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their marks
Made everything from toy guns that sparks
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It's easy to see without looking too far
That not much
Is really sacred.

While preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the President of the United States
Sometimes must have
To stand naked.

An' though the rules of the road have been lodged
It's only people's games that you got to dodge
And it's alright, Ma, I can make it.

Advertising signs that con you
Into thinking you're the one
That can do what's never been done
That can win what's never been won
Meantime life outside goes on
All around you.

Although the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

For them that must obey authority
That they do not respect in any degree
Who despite their jobs, their destinies
Speak jealously of them that are free
Cultivate their flowers to be
Nothing more than something
They invest in.

While some on principles baptized
To strict party platforms ties
Social clubs in drag disguise
Outsiders they can freely criticize
Tell nothing except who to idolize
And then say God Bl ~ Bob Dylan

There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country. ~ Bob Feller

How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within if only we would listen to it, that tells us certainly when to go forth into the unknown. ~ Elisabeth Kubler Ross

You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself. ~ Bob Dylan

Sometimes,' says Bob, trying to eat a falafel and balance his glass at the same time. ~ Elly Griffiths

I never know what my next move will be in Hollywood. It's such an unpredictable town. People get jaded and lost and I've been able to stay a float. I think the next logical step in my career would be to start my own filmmaking empire like (Harvey Weinstein) and (Bob Weinstein) did so many years ago. I think if only the unions weren't so strict in Boston, I'd set up shop there and make films of a certain quality you don't see represented these days. I'm full of ideas and dreams. ~ Ben Affleck

Systems programmers are the high priests of a low cult. ~ Bob Barton

As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations. ~ Bob Brown

I am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general. ~ Bob Kane

You might think and be so marvelously right about praise that you open your door one day and the day walks in and stays for years. ~ Bob Hicok

I like the sun."
"Do you really? I didn't think you'd go in for simple things like sun. You're the neon type, aren't you?"
"If you say so. ~ Ross Macdonald

Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone. ~ Bob Geldof

It happend that Bob referred in front of Paul to the young woman met in Chantilly; it happened that Paul spoke to Bob of the one from the cinema that he'd had so much trouble seeing again. It never occurred to them that these portraits might bear a certain resemblance to each other, and the fact is that they bore none at all. ~ Jean Echenoz

His eyes held the confident vacancy that comes from the exercise of other people's power. ~ Ross Macdonald

The big change was reggae and hip-hop, which came along after Split Enz had started. When Bob Marley first visited New Zealand, he lit a fuse that is still burning very brightly. The Maori people particularly honor reggae music in a very big way. So there is a strong reggae scene and a strong hip-hop scene, especially among Samoans. There's still plenty of quirky stuff around. No one expects to make much money here, so it definitely does encourage an underground sense. ~ Tim Finn

I stepped back from being out front to playing bass. So we started switching: I'd play bass on one song, we'd switch on the next song; I'd play piano ... we'd play mandolin. ~ Bob Livingston

Don't let your mind wander, it's to small to be out by itself. ~ Bob Burton

Garrett must have sensed I was awake. "Hey Detective," he said to Uncle Bob, who was now trudging across the grating toward us. "I think we're losing her. I have no choice but to perform mouth-to-mouth."
"Don't you dare," I said, my lids still in lockdown. ~ Darynda Jones

Definition destroys ... there's nothing definite in this world ~ Bob Dylan

The boar held a VCR reote control and cackled maliciously as he watched a video of U.S. politicians grinning with their one-time budy Saddam
Dick Cheney, Gulf War-era Secretary of State James Baker, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Bob Dole, George H.W. Bush, to the tune of "Taking Care of Business." And then the viewers saw themselves in a mirror emblazoned with the words "You are a witness. ~ Wafaa Bilal

In 2008 all the stars aligned perfectly for Obama's 6-point victory over John McCain. He was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully convinced enough voters to paint their own version of what hope-and-change was all about on the blank canvas he provided. ~ Bob Beauprez

There is no question that the minority party always makes a sport of going after the governor. ~ Bob McDonnell

Song-writing's just kinda like catching fish--you sit there and pull them out as they go by--though I think Bob Dylan's up stream from me somewhere. ~ Arlo Guthrie

The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories. ~ Ed Sheeran

I have and I will always work to promote a civil public discourse. ~ Bob Etheridge

I tell my audiences today that I served 10 years in Nashville! That's a joke, of course; I was grateful for the work. Bob Ferguson, who produced Connie Smith, Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton, started calling me in. ~ Johnny Gimble

The first thing you notice about New Orleans are the burying grounds - the cemeteries - and they're a cold proposition, one of the best things there are here. Going by, you try to be as quiet as possible, better to let them sleep. Greek, Roman, sepulchres- palatial mausoleums made to order, phantomesque, signs and symbols of hidden decay - ghosts of women and men who have sinned and who've died and are now living in tombs. The past doesn't pass away so quickly here. You could be dead for a long time.

The ghosts race towards the light, you can almost hear the heavy breathing spirits, all determined to get somewhere. New Orleans, unlike a lot of those places you go back to and that don't have the magic anymore, still has got it. Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. Around any corner, there's a promise of something daring and ideal and things are just getting going. There's something obscenely joyful behind every door, either that or somebody crying with their head in their hands. A lazy rhythm looms in the dreamy air and the atmosphere pulsates with bygone duels, past-life romance, comrades requesting comrades to aid them in some way. You can't see it, but you know it's here. Somebody is always sinking. Everyone seems to be from some very old Southern families. Either that or a foreigner. I like the way it is.

There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better. There's a thousand different angles at any moment. At any time you ~ Bob Dylan

So when his tractor came to a smash-halt, the potato-digger rising up behind and then crashing back down, Bob was flung forward over the engine block and directly into the Dome. His iPod exploded in the wide front pocket of his bib overalls, but he never felt it. He broke his neck and fractured his skull on the nothing he collided with and died in the dirt shortly thereafter, by one tall wheel of his tractor, which was still idling. Nothing, you know, runs like a Deere. ~ Stephen King

The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief. ~ Elisabeth Kubler Ross

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen. ~ Bob Dylan

I had reached the point when I could not see anything clearly ahead, I needed help, and I got it. ~ Ross Macdonald

Nothing goes to windward like a 747. ~ Tracee Ellis Ross

The things that bring couples together will always terrify me more than the things that tear us apart. They will always be harder to explain. They will always keep me up later. Love gone wrong has inspired so many great songs, but somehow, love going right is what's bizarre. It exposes deep freakcraft in the universe. As far as I'm concerned, 'some people are very kind' is the scariest line Bob Dylan ever wrote. Compared to that, his breakup songs are kid stuff. Some people are very kind and there's nothing in the universe to explain why.
It's a mystery how people lose each other
but to me, it's an even stranger mystery we manage to stay together, or to collide together at all. ~ Rob Sheffield

The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was ... They put a pinch on it. ~ Bob Livingston