Bob Ross
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Bob Ross (29 October 1942 – 4 July 1995) was an American painter and television presenter.
- That'll be our little secret.
- 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.
- Remember our Golden Rule: A thin paint sticks to a thick paint.
- And that makes it look like birch trees, isn't that sneaky? Heh. Ha. It's gorgeous.
- You know me, I gotta put in a big tree.
- Here's your bravery test!
- Almost always before putting in a big tree.
- Gotta give him a friend. Like I always say 'everyone needs a friend'.
- We don't know where it goes. We don't really care.
- After painting in a path or snow drift.
- Any time ya learn, ya gain.
- Any way you want it to be, that's just right.
- As my son Steve says, just 'smoosh' it in there. It's not a real word, but people seem to know what it means.
- Be sure to use odorless paint-thinner. If it's not odorless, you'll find yourself working alone very, very quick.
- Let's just blend this little rascal here, ha! Happy as we can be.
- Clouds are very, very free.
- Just put a few do-ers in there...
- Decide where your little footy hills live.
- Haha, and just beat the devil out of it.
- I like to beat the brush.
- You can use a brush rack to hit the brush on. Otherwise you will become unpopular real fast.
- Said after cleaning the brush with odorless thinner, while shaking off excess liquid by rapidly beating the brush against a post of the easel.
- If you did this with yellow, and you went over it with blue, you would end up with a .. with a translucent... green. And it's gorgeous. It is GORGEOUS.
- If you did this with blue, and you went over it with yellow, you would end up with a nice green sky. And that's not the thing we are looking for.
- Just lightly blend it, one hair and some air.
- Tender as a mothers love... And with my mother, that was certainly true.
- Let's do a little cabinectomy here.
- Oh, you'd be in Agony City by now.
- Said when he describes his paint method being used incorrectly.
- Just scrape in a few indications of sticks and twigs and other little things in there. People will think you spend hours doing this.
- Little raccoons and old possums 'n' stuff all live up in here. They've got to have a little place to sit.
- Little squirrels 'n' rabbits, and if this was in Florida or Georgia somewhere down there, might be an alligator or two hid back here.
- Maybe in our world there lives a happy little tree over there.
- Oh, green water... oh that's pretty. Boy, I like that, just alive with algae.
- Oh, that would make a nice place to fish. I like fishing, but I'm not a very good fisherman. I always throw the fish back into the water, just put a band-aid on his mouth, tap 'im on the patootie and let him on his way. And maybe some day, if I'm lucky, I'll get to catch him again.
- 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. Thaaaat's just ok.
- People might look at you a bit funny, but it's okay. Artists are allowed to be a bit different.
- Shwooop. Hehe. You have to make those little noises, or it just doesn't work.
- Talk to the tree, make friends with it.
- I taught my son to paint mountains like these, and guess what? Now he paints the best darn mountains in the industry.
- That's a crooked tree. We'll send him to Washington.
- That's where the crows will sit. But we'll have to put an elevator to put them up there because they can't fly, but they don't know that, so they still try.
- The only thing worse than yellow snow is green snow.
- 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 trees are oh so soft, oh so soft I freakin' love it.
- There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.
- Trees cover up a multitude of sins.
- Try to imagine that you are a tree. How do you want to look out here?
- Water's like me. It's laaazy... Boy, it always looks for the easiest way to do things.
- We don't make mistakes, we just have happy accidents.
- We tell people sometimes: we're like drug dealers, come into town and get everybody absolutely addicted to painting. It doesn't take much to get you addicted.
- We want happy paintings. Happy paintings. If you want sad things, watch the news.
- We're gonna make some big decisions in our little world.
- Well, the little clock on the wall says we're just about out of time. God bless you my friend.
- Well, the little clock on the wall says we're just about out of time. Goodnight and God bless.
- Well, the little clock on the wall says we're just about out of time. Happy Painting and God bless
- From all of us here I'd like to wish you happy painting...and God bless my friend.
- When I was teaching my son Steve to paint, I used to tell him, just pretend he was a whisper, and he floated right across the mountain, that easy, gentle, make love to it, caress it.
- You can do anything you want to do. This is your world.
- I can't go over 30 minutes, because we have a mean ol' director with no sense of humor.
- You can put as many or as few as you want in your world.
- In reference to a variety of things including trees, clouds, mountains, hills, fence posts, rocks, etc.
- Even if you've never painted before, this one you can do.
- This is the hardest part of this method. If you can do this, you can do anything.
- Roll it in a little bright red and lets sign this right in here. Luckily I have a short name so it's easy to sign.
- And just go straight in like you're going to stab it. And barely touch it... barely touch it.
- When we teach people to paint this is the one they fall in love with. It works so well.
