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.
I work day and night without sleep. The paintings keep me fired up. - Jules Olitski
I work day and night without sleep. The paintings keep me fired up.
- 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 me awake; the paintings kep… - 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 me awake; the paintings kep…
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 see… - 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 and that and this, my God! Why haven't I see…
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
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 the Almighty for help. That … - 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 ask the Almighty for help. That …
I think of painting as possessed by a structure... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling. - Jules Olitski
I think of painting as possessed by a structure... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling.
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
Decisions are being made a mile a minute while you're making the work, and it has to come out of experience and vision.
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 color as bein… - 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, of color as bein…
Expect Nothing, Do Your Work, Celebrate. - Jules Olitski
Expect Nothing, Do Your Work, Celebrate.
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