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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-olitski/i-worked-like-a-crazyman-i-worked-day-and-night-often-days-and-nights/)

[Jules Olitski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-olitski/)

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## More by Jules Olitski

> [Expect Nothing, Do Your Work, Celebrate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-olitski/expect-nothing-do-your-work-celebrate/)

[Jules Olitski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-olitski/)

> [What I would like in my painting is simply a spray of colour that hangs like a cloud, but does not lose its shape.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-olitski/what-i-would-like-in-my-painting-is-simply-a-spray-of-colour-that/)

[Jules Olitski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-olitski/)

> [In the bedroom darkness I may visualise a way of making a painting. I can see it - if I do this and this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-olitski/in-the-bedroom-darkness-i-may-visualise-a-way-of-making-a-painting-i/)

[Jules Olitski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-olitski/)

> [When the conception of internal form is governed by edge, color appears to remain on or above the surface. I think, on the contrary,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-olitski/when-the-conception-of-internal-form-is-governed-by-edge-color/)

[Jules Olitski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-olitski/)

> [I worked like a crazyman. I worked day and night, often days and nights at a time - without sleep. Gallons of coffee kept…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-olitski/i-worked-like-a-crazyman-i-worked-day-and-night-often-days-and-nights/)

[Jules Olitski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-olitski/)

> [Decisions are being made a mile a minute while you're making the work, and it has to come out of experience and vision.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-olitski/decisions-are-being-made-a-mile-a-minute-while-you-re-making-the-work/)

[Jules Olitski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-olitski/)

> [I think of color as being seen in and throughout, not solely on the surface.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-olitski/i-think-of-color-as-being-seen-in-and-throughout-not-solely-on-the/)

[Jules Olitski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-olitski/)

> [Alas, all too often, the dream turns into a mud puddle. I am left looking at a disaster. What to do! Keep working. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-olitski/alas-all-too-often-the-dream-turns-into-a-mud-puddle-i-am-left/)

[Jules Olitski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-olitski/)

> [Color in color is felt at any and every place of the pictorial organization; in its immediacy - its particularity. Color must be felt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-olitski/color-in-color-is-felt-at-any-and-every-place-of-the-pictorial/)

[Jules Olitski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-olitski/)

> [I work day and night without sleep. The paintings keep me fired up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-olitski/i-work-day-and-night-without-sleep-the-paintings-keep-me-fired-up/)

[Jules Olitski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-olitski/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-olitski/there-is-value-in-long-years-of-obscurity-if-one-doesn-t-go-insane-or/)

[Jules Olitski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-olitski/)

> [I think of painting as possessed by a structure... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-olitski/i-think-of-painting-as-possessed-by-a-structure-but-a-structure-born/)

[Jules Olitski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-olitski/)

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