137 Quotes by Bob Ross

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

I was the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you make your bed, the guy who screams at you for being late to work. The job requires you to be a mean, tough person. And I was fed up with it. I promised myself that if I ever got away from it, it wasn't going to be that way any more.

I don't intimidate anyone. Instead, I try to get people to believe in themselves.

We get letters every day from people wanting more mountains. As many as I paint, they still say, 'Give me more mountains.'

If you study my paintings, there are no signs of human life.

We show people that anybody can paint a picture that they're proud of. It may never hang in the Smithsonian, but it will certainly be something that they'll hang in their home and be proud of. And that's what it's all about.

I tell people, 'You can do this.' And they write back and say, 'You were right. I can do this. And now I believe I can do anything.'

I stay hidden. I'm sort of hard to find.

If I paint something, I don't want to have to explain what it is.