Bob Ross
Bob Ross
Robert Norman "Bob" Rosswas an American painter, art instructor, and television host. He was best known as the creator and host of The Joy of Painting, an instructional television program that aired from 1983 to 1994 on PBS in the United States, and also aired in Canada, Latin America and Europe...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth29 October 1942
CityDaytona Beach, FL
CountryUnited States of America
morning way should
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.
artist people different
People might look at you a bit funny, but it's okay. Artists are allowed to be a bit different.
beautiful unique imperfection
It's the imperfections that make something beautiful, that's what makes it different and unique from everything else.
clouds sky littles
Let's build us a happy, little cloud that floats around the sky.
errors trials pay
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.
tree grows
Trees don't grow even, they don't grow straight just however it makes them happy.
fun animal people
I guess I’m a little weird. I like to talk to trees and animals. That’s okay though; I have more fun than most people.
dark light giving
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.
mistake bird yeah
Ever make mistakes in life? Let's make them birds. Yeah, they're birds now.
health insurance million seven uninsured
And we have 45 million uninsured Americans. We have seven million Californians without health insurance coverage.
trees
A lot of times we can get trees out without scarring other trees.
covered
All around the top, it was covered in flames. It's depressing.
amount clint eastwood money people shows
People see you on television, and they think you make the same amount of money that Clint Eastwood does. But this is PBS. All these shows are done for free.
across auction buck donated hear paintings pbs stations
One of the questions that I hear over and over and over is, 'What do we do with all these paintings we do on television?' Most of these paintings are donated to PBS stations across the country. They auction them off, and they make a happy buck with 'em.