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