Best 14 quotes of Joshua L. Goldberg on MyQuotes

Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.

Allow the brush to 'wander' above the realm of conventional judgement and practice.

Ask yourself, 'What is obstructing my vision?' What is the difference between seeing and looking?

Dismiss thoughts of 'good, bad, right, wrong, success, failure' - be spontaneous.

Identify in your work opposites of color, form, compositional arrangements, space, etc.

Master water first and then paint.

Nurture doubt as a creative strategy.

Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary... It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting.

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.

Rapid-collage prevents any elevating movement toward a fixed goal. To 'be nowhere' is to let oneself be.

Reconcile the loss of the painting - no matter how many times it may happen - with the joy of beginning again.

Respond to others about your work with equanimity.

The great square has no corners and the great implement completes nothing.

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.