Respond to others about your work with equanimity.

- Joshua L. Goldberg

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

- Joshua L. Goldberg

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

- Joshua L. Goldberg

Nurture doubt as a creative strategy.

- Joshua L. Goldberg

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

- Joshua L. Goldberg

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

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

- Joshua L. Goldberg