Bob Ross used to say that each painting was his own little world, a creation spawned from the mind, but that was a lie. The yellow forest meadow Ross had painted did not exist solely in the painter's head- it had already existed in Rick's life long before the brush had touched the canvas. More @Wikipedia
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