11 Quotes by Jules Olitski

Expect nothing. Do your work. Celebrate!

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

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 frees me...

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

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

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 being seen in and throughout, not solely on, the surface.

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

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.