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