137 Quotes by Bob Ross

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.

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

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

If what you’re doing doesn’t make you happy, you’re doing the wrong thing.

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.

Gotta have opposites, light and dark and dark and light, in painting. It’s like in life. Gotta have a little sadness once in awhile so you know when the good times come. I’m waiting on the good times now.

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

You know me, I think there ought to be a big old tree right there. And let’s give him a friend. Everybody needs a friend.

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