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122 Wholesome And Soothing Bob Ross Quotes

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You've probably been living under a rock a good chunk of your life if you haven't heard anything about Bob Ross as of yet. No offense if you have, though; it seems like a nice enough place for a comfy lair! So, our bet is that you already know that he's like, the best TV host ever, the most loveable person, and the most comforting presence. Come on, he even used to bring cute baby animals to his painting shows (cue the awwws). Oh, and also an artist like none other! Besides all these already incredible things, he was also a person of immense wisdom, and a wise and comforting word is something that we could always have more of. So, there you are - a whole post dedicated to Bob Ross quotes that'll absolutely make any day a bit brighter and better.

What should you expect from these inspiring quotes, you ask? Well, reading them shall make you feel like you're a tiny little seahorse meandering the great barrier reef with sun rays creating wondrous patterns on the seafloor through the surface of azure water. In short - wonderful. These beautiful quotes are also about to tell you some secrets about life itself. And while we're no spoilsports, they're mostly about L.O.V.E. And there's also something about these motivating quotes that’ll definitely make any day better and any hardship lesser. All in all, a very worthy read!

So, get ready for these touching quotes to awaken that tiny little seahorse in you - truly, an experience like nothing else. Ready? Well then, scroll down below and check out our collection of Bob Ross quotes. Although they are all brilliant, give the wonderful quote that you liked the most your vote!

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#1

“We don’t make mistakes. We just have happy accidents.”

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#2

“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.”

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#3

“Exercise your heart, do what makes you happy!”

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#4

“They say everything looks better with odd numbers of things. But sometimes I put even numbers — just to upset the critics.”

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#5

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

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#6

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

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#7

“There’s nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.”

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#8

“Just let go — and fall like a little waterfall.”

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#9

“You can do anything you want to do. This is your world.”

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#10

“We artists are a different breed of people. We’re a happy bunch.”

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#11

“We want happy paintings. Happy paintings. If you want sad things, watch the news.”

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#12

“Go out on a limb — that’s where the fruit is.”

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#13

“I don’t intimidate anyone. Instead, I try to get people to believe in themselves.”

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#14

“And if it does nothing else for you, it should make you happy.”

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#15

“Gotta have a little sadness once in a while so you know when the good times come.”

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#16

“I can’t go over 30 minutes, because we have a mean old director with no sense of humor.”

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#17

“No pressure. Just relax and watch it happen.”

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#18

“Be so very light. Be a gentle whisper.”

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#19

“It’s life. It’s interesting. It’s fun.”

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#20

“We don’t laugh because we feel good, we feel good because we laugh.”

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#21

“Let’s build a happy little cloud. Let’s build some happy little trees.”

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#22

“I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn’t know I had any talent.”

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#23

“[Painting] will bring a lot of good thoughts to your heart.”

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#24

“I like to beat the brush.”

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#25

“We don’t really know where this goes — and I’m not sure we really care.”

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#26

“You can do anything here — the only prerequisite is that it makes you happy.”

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#27

“All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.”

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#28

“Be so very light. Be a gentle whisper.”

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#29

“Believe that you can do it because you can do it.”

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#30

“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.'”

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#31

“I know you can do this. So certainly, if I know it, you know it, too.”

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#32

“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.”

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#33

“You know me, I gotta put in a big tree.”

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#34

“Traditionally, art has been for the select few.”

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#35

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

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#36

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

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#37

“That’s a crooked tree. We’ll send him to Washington.”

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#38

“There’s nothing in the world that breeds success like success.”

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#39

“Gotta have opposites, light and dark and dark and light, in painting. It’s like life.”

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#40

“I never turn down requests for interviews. I’m just rarely asked.”

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#41

“Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers.”

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#42

“I stay hidden. I’m sort of hard to find.”

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#43

“Maybe this cloud has a little friend. Maybe this little friend’s named Clyde. He lives right up here.”

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#44

“If you learned how to make a cloud, your time is not wasted.”

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#45

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

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#46

“Make love to the canvas.”

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#47

“If I paint something, I don’t want to have to explain what it is.”

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#48

“Water’s like me. It’s lazy. Boy, it always looks for the easiest way to do things.”

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#49

“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.”

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#50

“I taught my son to paint mountains like these, and guess what? Now he paints the best darn mountains in the industry.”

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#51

“Use absolutely no pressure. Just like an angel’s wing.”

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#52

“You need the dark in order to show the light.”

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#53

“You have to allow the paint to break to make it beautiful.”

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#54

“However you think it should be, that’s exactly how it should be.”

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#55

“In nature, dead trees are just as normal as live trees.”

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#56

“If you do too much, it’s going to lose its effectiveness.”

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#57

“This is happy place; little squirrels live here and play.”

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#58

“If we’re going to have animals around we all have to be concerned about them and take care of them.”

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#59

“Isn’t it fantastic that you can change your mind and create all these happy things?”

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#60

“This is your world. You’re the creator.”

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#61

“Go out on a limb, that’s where the fruit is.”

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#62

“Wash the brush, just beats the devil out of it.”

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#63

“Mix up a little more shadow color here, then we can put us a little shadow right in there. See how you can move things around?”

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#64

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

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#65

“Remember our golden rule—a thin paint sticks to a thick paint.”

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#66

“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.”

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#67

“The only thing worse than yellow snow is green snow.”

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#68

“Truly, you have experienced the joy of painting!”

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#69

“There are thousands of very, very talented artists who will never be known, even after they are dead.”

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#70

“People might look at you a bit funny, but it’s okay. Artists are allowed to be a bit different.”

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#71

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

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#72

“Now then, let’s come right down in here and put some nice big strong arms on these trees. Tree needs an arm too. It’ll hold up the weight of the forest. Little bird has to have a place to set there. There he goes.”

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#73

“Decide where your little footy hills live.”

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#74

“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.”

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#75

“You have just completed a masterpiece—sign it and be proud!”

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#76

“Let’s just blend this little rascal here, ha! Happy as we can be.”

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#77

“Stones are all different colors, sometimes they are just red!”

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#78

“Let’s get crazy.”

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#79

"Try to imagine that you are a tree. How do you want to look out here?"

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#80

“Little raccoons and old possums ‘n’ stuff all live up in here. They’ve got to have a little place to sit.”

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#81

“Be sure to use odorless paint thinner. If it’s not odorless, you’ll find yourself working alone very, very quick.”

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#82

“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.”

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#83

“You too can paint almighty pictures.”

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#84

“Find freedom on this canvas.”

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#85

“Every day is a good day when you paint.”

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#86

“Got to give him a friend. Like I always say, ‘Everyone needs a friend.’”

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#87

“See how it fades right into nothing. That’s just what you’re looking for.”

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#88

“Don’t forget to tell these special people in your life just how special they are to you.”

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#89

“Didn’t you know you had that much power? You can move mountains. You can do anything.”

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#90

“Talk to the tree, make friends with it.”

7points

#91

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

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#92

“You can have anything you want in the world — once you help everyone around you get what they want.”

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#93

“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.”

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#94

“Remember how free clouds are. They just lay around in the sky all day long.”

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#95

“Anytime you learn, you gain.”

7points

#96

“Look around. Look at what we have. Beauty is everywhere—you only have to look to see it.”

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#97

“It’s hard to see things when you are too close. Take a step back and look.”

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#98

“Any way you want it to be, that’s just right.”

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#99

“Stand back and admire!”

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#100

"Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative. These things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul."

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#101

“With thinned paint on the liner brush, sign your painting.”

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#102

“How do you make a round circle with a square knife? That’s your challenge for the day.”

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#103

“I remember when my dad told me as a kid, ‘If you want to catch a rabbit, stand behind a tree and make a noise like a carrot. Then when the rabbit comes by you grab him.’ Works pretty good until you try to figure out what kind of noise a carrot makes.”

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#104

“We have been brainwashed to believe that Michelangelo had to pat you on the head at birth.”

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#105

“Trees cover up a multitude of sins.”

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#106

“And that makes it look like birch trees, isn’t that sneaky? Heh. Ha. It’s gorgeous.”

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#107

“Maybe there lives a happy little evergreen tree right there.”

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#108

“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 anymore.”

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#109

"I can’t think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting."

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#110

“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.”

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#111

“As my son Steve says, just ‘smoosh’ it in there. It’s not a real word, but people seem to know what it means.”

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#112

“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.”

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#113

“Here’s your bravery test!”

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#114

“Everybody has dreams. You are living the American dream, what’s wrong with pushing to secure it for everyone?”

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#115

“I think there’s an artist hidden at the bottom of every single one of us.”

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#116

“Don’t forget to make all these little things individuals — all of them special in their own way.”

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#117

“I think each of us, sometime in our life, has wanted to paint a picture.”

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#118

“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.”

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#119

“Painting is a nice way to put a happy buck in your pocket, and to make good things happen in your heart.”

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#120

“Tell you what, we just take that old dark color that we had.”

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#121

“What can be painted can be punished.”

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#122

“We don’t know where it goes. We don’t really care.”

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Aivaras Kaziukonis

Aivaras is a SEO listicles curator. Aivaras is a student trying to pave the way to his career in Marketing and advertisment creation. Also Aivaras like's to watch and play sports, especially football.

Aivaras is a SEO listicles curator. Aivaras is a student trying to pave the way to his career in Marketing and advertisment creation. Also Aivaras like's to watch and play sports, especially football.

Justė Kairytė - Barkauskienė

Justė is a copywriter here at Bored Panda, and though her studies at the Veterinary Academy seemingly have nothing to do with writing, the passion for animals and nature helps in creating the most interesting and engaging posts. She also works with Search Engine Optimization, so you could find Bored Panda's articles easier. Justė's not only an avid equestrian, but she's also a walking encyclopedia. Ask her anything!

Justė is a copywriter here at Bored Panda, and though her studies at the Veterinary Academy seemingly have nothing to do with writing, the passion for animals and nature helps in creating the most interesting and engaging posts. She also works with Search Engine Optimization, so you could find Bored Panda's articles easier. Justė's not only an avid equestrian, but she's also a walking encyclopedia. Ask her anything!

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Falcon 2 years ago

A nice dose of optimism for a Monday. Thank you!

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Falcon 2 years ago

A nice dose of optimism for a Monday. Thank you!

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