Jules Olitski Quotes

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• Color in color is felt at any and every place of the pictorial organization; in its immediacy - its particularity. Color must be felt throughout.
• I think of color as being seen in and throughout, not solely on the surface.
• Decisions are being made a mile a minute while you're making the work, and it has to come out of experience and vision.
• What I would like in my painting is simply a spray of colour that hangs like a cloud, but does not lose its shape.
• Alas, all too often, the dream turns into a mud puddle. I am left looking at a disaster. What to do! Keep working. I ask…
• When the conception of internal form is governed by edge, color appears to remain on or above the surface. I think, on the contrary, of…
• 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 of…
• I work day and night without sleep. The paintings keep me fired up.
• I think of painting as possessed by a structure... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling.
• In the bedroom darkness I may visualise a way of making a painting. I can see it - if I do this and this and…

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