Now the artist is enjoying a posthumous second act as pop culture figure on the internet. “It was chaotic, a lot of yelling, a lot of fighting and their home life was rough, but when they got home from school and they could watch Bob Ross for 30 minutes they were completely detached from the angst that permeated the house. He recalls speaking to one person who found Ross’s show a refuge from arguing parents headed for divorce. Ross was an “incredibly skilled artist” whose work elicits “a cosy winter feeling”, says the director. There was no Netflix and so to see Bob Ross was to tune into his show when it was programmed to be on television and he had a huge following. Rofé, 38, says: “It was right size for the era. We just have happy accidents.” It was comfort television, like soaking in a warm bath, in the days when appointment television ruled. His words of whimsy included, “Every day is a good day when you paint,” and “We don’t make mistakes. With permed hair and balmy voice, he hosted The Joy of Painting on PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) from 1983 to 1994. Indeed, the documentary starts as conventional biography, telling how Ross served in the air force for 20 years, learned a wet-on-wet painting technique from a close friend and became best known for producing tranquil nature scenes featuring “happy little trees”. “I just wanted to make a film that would represent this individual who is in many ways a mystery and yet completely beloved by so many.” “In no way did I set out to make a film that was a ‘gotcha!’ film,” Rofé says via Zoom from New York. A man can learn so many things.This is the surprise twist in Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed, a Netflix film about the landscape artist who created more than 30,000 paintings and touched millions of lives before his death from lymphoma in 1995 at the age of 52. “It is life, I think, to watch the water. “You don’t always get the waterfall shortcut in Mario Kart. And down the waterfall where ever it may take me, I know that life won’t break me when I come to call, she won’t forsake me, I’m loving angels instead.’ĩ0. Yet each day that touches us, and every man in the world is unique irredeemable over. We let time cascade over us like a waterfall, believing it to be never-ending. All this we say, as we sleepwalk our time through years of days and nights. ‘We say that life is sweet, its satisfactions deep. If I draw a mountain as a heap of human forms and paint a waterfall in the shape of tumbling human bodies, it is because I see in the mountain a heap of living things, and in the waterfall a precipitate current of life. A nude body is the truest and noblest symbol of life. It is always moving and there is always an uneven flow to it.”Ĩ7. “Life is like a waterfall, always moving.”Ĩ6. A persistent drop of water will wear away even the hardest stone.”Ĩ5. “When life places stones in your path, be the water. “The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.”įinally, we can’t go without waterfall quotes about life! Yes, we always need to have them somewhere handy so they can lift us up on gloomy days □Ĩ4. For water thou art, and unto water shalt thou return.”Ģ4. “Sometimes, it’s hard to tell how fast the current’s moving until you’re headed over a waterfall.”Ģ3. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall.”Ģ2. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”Ģ1. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. “A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.”Ģ0. “Do not feel sad for your tears, as rocks never regret the waterfalls.”ġ9. Cool and crystal clear, it falls gently on the sleeper, cleansing the mind and soothing the soul.”ġ8. “Grace is finding a waterfall when you were only looking for a stream.”ġ7.
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