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.
Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting … - Joshua L. Goldberg
Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting …
- Joshua L. Goldberg
Reconcile the loss of the painting - no matter how many times it may happen - with the joy of beginning again. - Joshua L. Goldberg
Reconcile the loss of the painting - no matter how many times it may happen - with the joy of beginning again.
Allow the brush to 'wander' above the realm of conventional judgement and practice. - Joshua L. Goldberg
Allow the brush to 'wander' above the realm of conventional judgement and practice.
The great square has no corners and the great implement completes nothing. - Joshua L. Goldberg
The great square has no corners and the great implement completes nothing.
Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary... It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting. - Joshua L. Goldberg
Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary... It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting.
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… - Joshua L. Goldberg
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…
Nurture doubt as a creative strategy. - Joshua L. Goldberg
Nurture doubt as a creative strategy.
Dismiss thoughts of 'good, bad, right, wrong, success, failure' - be spontaneous. - Joshua L. Goldberg
Dismiss thoughts of 'good, bad, right, wrong, success, failure' - be spontaneous.
Respond to others about your work with equanimity. - Joshua L. Goldberg
Respond to others about your work with equanimity.
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