Bob Ross

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1942 age 0

   Born

2. 1995 age 52

   Died

3. 2008 age 52

   CreditBedtime Stories

• JPJonathan Pryce1 title
• CCCourteney Cox1 title
• RGRichard Griffiths1 title
• CECarmen Electra1 title
• LLLucy Lawless1 title
• DCDebbie Lee Carrington1 title
• GPGuy Pearce1 title
• KJKathryn Joosten1 title
• PDPaul Dooley1 title
• RGRupert Gregson-Williams1 title

• 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.

  Bob Ross, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn't know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.

  Bob Ross, CC BY-SA 4.0

• People have success with this method and it gets them excited. It gets them hooked. You can put layers of thick paint on thin paint and that allows you to complete a painting in one sitting.

  Bob Ross, CC BY-SA 4.0

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

  Bob Ross, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I have to paint fast on television because of the limited time, but I don't want people to see what I'm showing them as work, something to worry and fret over. This is supposed to be fun.

  Bob Ross, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Traditionally, art has been for the select few. We have been brainwashed to believe that Michaelangelo had to pat you on the head at birth. Well, 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.

  Bob Ross, CC BY-SA 4.0