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Quotes by Jules Olitski - (11 quotes)

Jules Olitski - From the Choices category:

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)

Jules Olitski - From the Colour category:

Color in color is felt at any and every place of the pictorial organization; in its immediacy - its particularity. Color must be felt throughout. (Jules Olitski)

Jules Olitski - From the Colour category:

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)

Jules Olitski - From the Failure category:

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 the Almighty for help. That frees me... (Jules Olitski)

Jules Olitski - From the Form category:

- Painting in Color, 1967...
When the conception of internal form is governed by edge, color (even when stained into raw canvas) appears to remain on or above the surface. I think, on the contrary, of color as being seen in and throughout, not solely on, the surface. (Jules Olitski)

Jules Olitski - From the Obscurity category:

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 fooling around and trying things out gets ingrained. (Jules Olitski)

Jules Olitski - From the Obsession category:

I work day and night without sleep. The paintings keep me fired up. (Jules Olitski)

Jules Olitski - From the Painting category:

I think of painting as possessed by a structure... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling. (Jules Olitski)

Jules Olitski - From the Vision category:

In the bedroom darkness I may visualise a way of making a painting. I can see it - if I do this and this and that and this, my God! Why haven't I seen this until now? I can hardly wait to get to the studio and make the vision real. (Jules Olitski)

Jules Olitski - From the Work category:

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)

Jules Olitski - From the Work category:

Expect nothing. Do your work. Celebrate! (Jules Olitski)