Joshua L. Goldberg Quotes

#1. Playful arising is authorized by both risk and trust in the process and in oneself. To be truly playful and improvisational one must not look for results. - Author: Joshua L. Goldberg

#2. Identify in your work opposites of color, form, compositional arrangements, space, etc. - Author: Joshua L. Goldberg

#3. Rapid-collage prevents any elevating movement toward a fixed goal. To 'be nowhere' is to let oneself be. - Author: Joshua L. Goldberg

#4. To be the authentic is to be detached and stand aside from oneself and the work so that the working process can take on an untrammeled life of its own. Labored self-involvement, contrivance, ulterior motives, even the extraordinary facility that one may have, must be let go. - Author: Joshua L. Goldberg

#5. Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary ... It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting. - Author: Joshua L. Goldberg

#6. Ask yourself, 'What is obstructing my vision?' What is the difference between seeing and looking? - Author: Joshua L. Goldberg

#7. Dismiss thoughts of 'good, bad, right, wrong, success, failure' - be spontaneous. - Author: Joshua L. Goldberg

#8. The great square has no corners and the great implement completes nothing. - Author: Joshua L. Goldberg

#9. Reconcile the loss of the painting - no matter how many times it may happen - with the joy of beginning again. - Author: Joshua L. Goldberg

#10. Nurture doubt as a creative strategy. - Author: Joshua L. Goldberg

#11. Seeing nothing one sees everything. - Author: Joshua L. Goldberg

#12. Representational painters: place your works in a larger context. Give your work not only breadth but breath. Do not 'copy' what you see outwardly but give it 'spirit. - Author: Joshua L. Goldberg

#13. Master water first and then paint. - Author: Joshua L. Goldberg

#14. Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts. - Author: Joshua L. Goldberg

#15. Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting students need to unlearn what one has acquired. - Author: Joshua L. Goldberg

#16. Allow the brush to 'wander' above the realm of conventional judgement and practice. - Author: Joshua L. Goldberg

#17. Respond to others about your work with equanimity. - Author: Joshua L. Goldberg