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
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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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We train one-quarter of the commercial pilots in the United States, so when we heard about this tragedy we knew the odds were good one of pilots would be involved. It turns out maybe some that were not authorized to fly were also pilots.
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What we are trying to do is create a single access point that has no wrong door,
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And we have 45 million uninsured Americans. We have seven million Californians without health insurance coverage.
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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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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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Traditionally, art has been for the select few. We have been brainwashed to believe that Michelangelo had to pat you on the head at birth.
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Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers. I achieved that a long time ago with TV. I don't need any more.
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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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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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If you study my paintings, there are no signs of human life.
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I don't intimidate anyone. Instead, I try to get people to believe in themselves.
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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.
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If you learned how to make a cloud, your time is not wasted.