Bob Ross Quotes

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

I never had the dream to be a great designer. My focus was just to do beautiful things.

I think maybe one day I'll go back to music. I don't know. I don't know if sometimes you lose a passion or you don't lose it, it becomes more personal and less about sharing it with everyone.

The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.

I really want to continue doing art. I would love to go back to doing paintings one day.

Drawing and visual arts was kinda my first passion going all the way back to when I was a kid. I always felt like it was what I was supposed to do - but in reality I don't know that I ever had the skill to make it a profession.

I'm not trying to prove myself a great filmmaker. I don't know much about filmmaking anyway. I'm trying my hand at it to see if I'm any good.

This creating? It's my passion.

I have sketched since a young age, so there's always been an artistic side, a visual side to my personality.

Every team member who brings intelligence, experience and passion to their creations should be called an artist or designer.

I was a creative kid; I wasn't really into sports, and sports in the South are a pretty big deal. It's like a religion down there. It was tough to find my footing, but thankfully, my parents discovered, through a neighbor, this theater called Young Actors Theater and signed me up for the summer program. It really was a gift. Even if a kid doesn't go into acting or the arts like I did, some kids need that environment to find themselves and find what they love to do. I'm so thankful for that theater; it was a big gift to me.

Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you do when you are not living.

You're just like, "I like doing this - it's something I have a lot of passion for." You happen to do it, you enjoy songwriting, and eventually if you're writing enough songs, then you fall into it.

I was loving music, and loving art, painting, so I was considering those things, but I must say I dug acting as well.

I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.

My friend advised me to go into studying art, which at first shocked me because art was so easy. It was just something I did, like breathing or brushing my teeth. It couldn't be a job. I had a much more difficult time writing plays, making myself sit at that typewriter and finish those things.

That is my reality. It's that important to nurture and foster my own creativity. There are plenty of birthday parties I haven't been able to go to, weddings I haven't been able to go to because I've been working. Those are things that have not been easy to give up, but at the same time, it is my reality. It's my responsibility.

Own what you are, and I mean whether that's art, or whether that's fashion, or whether that's music, or whether that's acting, or whether that's politics, or whether that's literature; it's own what you are, and grab it, and, you know, be as prolific as possible.

I do eventually want to get back into performing, but right now it's more fun for me to dance for myself.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.

Some guys can run fast, some guys can sing, I found I could take photographs that people were interested in.

I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.