Architecture Quote by Jules Olitski

“I think of painting as possessed by a structure... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling.”

Jules Olitski

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Expect Nothing, Do Your Work, Celebrate.

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What I would like in my painting is simply a spray of colour that hangs like a cloud, but does not lose its shape.

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In the bedroom darkness I may visualise a way of making a painting. I can see it - if I do this and this…

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When the conception of internal form is governed by edge, color appears to remain on or above the surface. I think, on the contrary,…

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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…

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Decisions are being made a mile a minute while you're making the work, and it has to come out of experience and vision.

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I think of color as being seen in and throughout, not solely on the surface.

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Alas, all too often, the dream turns into a mud puddle. I am left looking at a disaster. What to do! Keep working. I…

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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…

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I work day and night without sleep. The paintings keep me fired up.

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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…

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