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