I worked like a crazyman. I worked day and night, often days and nights at a time - without sleep. Gallons of coffee kept me awake; the paintings kept me fired up. — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
What I would like in my painting is simply a spray of colour that hangs like a cloud, but does not lose its shape. — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
In the bedroom darkness I may visualise a way of making a painting. I can see it - if I do this and this… — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
When the conception of internal form is governed by edge, color appears to remain on or above the surface. I think, on the contrary,… — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
I worked like a crazyman. I worked day and night, often days and nights at a time - without sleep. Gallons of coffee kept… — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
Decisions are being made a mile a minute while you're making the work, and it has to come out of experience and vision. — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
I think of color as being seen in and throughout, not solely on the surface. — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
Alas, all too often, the dream turns into a mud puddle. I am left looking at a disaster. What to do! Keep working. I… — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
Color in color is felt at any and every place of the pictorial organization; in its immediacy - its particularity. Color must be felt… — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
There is value in long years of obscurity, if one doesn't go insane or suicidal, in that, simply because nobody is looking, the habit… — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
I think of painting as possessed by a structure... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling. — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
