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TIL that Bob Ross had an intense feud with his art teacher, William Alexander, who grew so frustrated with Bob Ross that he said: ‘He betrayed me…I invented 'wet on wet.’ I trained him and he is copying me – what bothers me is not just that he betrayed me, but that he thinks he can do it better.“

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