Bob Ross famous quotes

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

#Errors #Trials #Pay

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.
-- Bob Ross

#Fun #Animal #People

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

#World #Want

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

#Dark #Light #Giving

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

#Uncles #Alaska #Jail

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

#Moving #Home #Rivers

Trees don't grow even, they don't grow straight just however it makes them happy.
-- Bob Ross

#Tree #Grows

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

#Beautiful #Unique #Imperfection

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

#Inspirational #Art #Mistake

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

#Mistake #Accidents

Let's build us a happy, little cloud that floats around the sky.
-- Bob Ross

#Clouds #Sky #Littles

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.
-- Bob Ross

#Morning #Way #Should

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

#Mind #Vision #Needs

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

#Our World #Imagination #World

If I paint something, I don't want to have to explain what it is.
-- Bob Ross

#Want #Paint

I believe, I believe every day is a good day when you paint.
-- Bob Ross

#Believe #Good Day #I Believe

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

#Artist #People #Different

Trees cover up a multitude of sins.
-- Bob Ross

#Tree #Cover Ups #Sin

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

#Monday #Jobs #Make You Happy

I stay hidden. I'm sort of hard to find.
-- Bob Ross

It's hard to see things when you're too close. Take a step back and look.
-- Bob Ross

#Looks #Steps

Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.
-- Bob Ross

#Practice #Talent #Interest

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

#Tree

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

#Exercise #Thinking #Imagination

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

#Strong #Believe #Long

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

#Mistake #Making Mistakes #Accidents

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

#Relax #Watches #Pressure

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

#Way #Should

It's so important to do something every day that will make you happy
-- Bob Ross

#Important #Make You Happy

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

#Artist #People #Different

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

#Country #Art #College

The secret to doing anything is believing you can do it.
-- Bob Ross

#Believe #Secret #You Can Do It

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

#Long #Talent #Pursuit

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

#Touching #Firsts #Students

Everyday's a good day when you paint
-- Bob Ross

#Good Day #Everyday #Paint

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

#World

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

#Inspiring #Mistake #Thinking

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

#Mistake #Bird #Yeah

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

#World #Make You Happy

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

#Fun #People #Worry

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

#Mother #Mother Love

wash the brush, just beats the devil out of it
-- Bob Ross

#Devil #Beats #Brushes

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

#Clouds #Sky #Want

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

#Effectiveness #Too Much

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

#Letting Go #Fall #Littles

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.
-- Bob Ross

#Believe #Hobbies #Littles

Use absolutely no pressure. Just like an angel's wing.
-- Bob Ross

#Angel #Wings #Use

Think about a cloud. Just float around and be there.
-- Bob Ross

#Thinking #Clouds

Talk to the tree, make friends with it.
-- Bob Ross

#Tree

Happy painting and God Bless, my friend.
-- Bob Ross

#Painting #God Bless #Bless

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

#Believe #Practice #Two

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

#Artist

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

#Interviews #Turns #Request

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

#Blue #Black #Want

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

#Art #Select

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

#Peers #Want #Recognition