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

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

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

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

- 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…

- 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.

- 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 …

- 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…

- Jules Olitski

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

- Jules Olitski