Bob Ross Quotes

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.

I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

I've always been a fine artist.

Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.

Painting is a field that attracts a lot of lazy people. You can just sort of sit and wait for things to come to you. I know a lot of painters who'll sit and chat it up all night. But God, I just can't do that.

because talent alone doesn't make an artist

I started out as a juggler, so I know what it means to spend eight hours a day, seven days a week practicing something that people just dismiss with a wave of hand.

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

I'm a horrible drawer. I have no artistic ability in my hands.

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

Anyone who doesn't know anything about art knows the name of at least one artist.

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.

What I'm good at is making art.

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.

That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.

When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.

I've been painting and making things since I was little.

Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better.