Bob Ross Quotes

I loved and miss Bob Ross. Here are some of his sayings:

• 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

• Gotta give him a friend. Like I always say ‘everyone needs a friend.

After cleaning the brush with odorless thinner, while shaking off excess liquid by rapidly beating the brush against a post of the easel.He says:

• 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.

• 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 damn 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.