Best 47 quotes of Bob Ross on MyQuotes

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.

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

Everyday's a good day when you paint

Happy painting and God Bless, my friend.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.'

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

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.

Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers.

No pressure. Just relax and watch it happen.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Talk to the tree, make friends with it.

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

There are no mistakes, just happy accidents.

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

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 secret to doing anything is believing you can do it.

Traditionally, art has been for the select few.

Trees cover up a multitude of sins.

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

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

We dont make mistakes. We have happy accidents.

We don't make mistakes; we just have happy accidents.

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

Whatever makes you happy, you put in your world.

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

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

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

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

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

Talent is nothing more than a pursued interest.

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

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.