Explore Quotes by Bob Ross

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Whatever makes you happy, you put in your world.

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.

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

Trees cover up a multitude of sins.

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.

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

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.

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

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

We want our happy little clouds to float across the sky

Everyday's a good day when you paint

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

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

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.

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