Joshua L. Goldberg Quotes
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Ask yourself, 'What is obstructing my vision?' What is the difference between seeing and looking?
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Reconcile the loss of the painting - no matter how many times it may happen - with the joy of beginning again.
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Master water first and then paint.
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Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.
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Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary... It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting.
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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.
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Dismiss thoughts of 'good, bad, right, wrong, success, failure' - be spontaneous.
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Identify in your work opposites of color, form, compositional arrangements, space, etc.
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Respond to others about your work with equanimity.
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Seeing nothing one sees everything.
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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.
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The great square has no corners and the great implement completes nothing.
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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.
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Nurture doubt as a creative strategy.
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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.
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Allow the brush to 'wander' above the realm of conventional judgement and practice.
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Rapid-collage prevents any elevating movement toward a fixed goal. To 'be nowhere' is to let oneself be.
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