Olitski Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Jules Olitski

#4. It's hard to overstate how deep the need can get for things to make sense.

John Darnielle

#5. although my sudden goosebumps have nothing to do with the climate.

Paige Toon

#6. Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Andre Gide

#7. 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.

Jules Olitski

#8. 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

#9. I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it.

Emily Bronte

#10. The real in us is silent; the acquired is talkative.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Jules Olitski

#12. Fortunately my career has never been about how I look, it's about how I can be.

Imelda Staunton

#13. The more helpless you are, the better you are fitted to pray, and the more answers to prayer you will experience.

Ole Hallesby

#14. 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

#15. Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living.

Phil Linz

#16. Yeah, he'd been lonely. Knew bloody well what it felt like to have no one in the world who belonged to you, or you to them. But surely that was one reason why they had reached out to each other -

Diana Gabaldon

#17. 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

#18. Not only is man what he conceives himself to be, but he is also only what he wills himself to be after this thrust toward existence. Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. Such

Jean-Paul Sartre

#19. For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 pounds. I say 'by choice' because I have never 'accidentally' eaten anything, so when I choose to eat too much, I have chosen to weigh too much.

Zig Ziglar

#20. 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

#21. Expect nothing. Do your work. Celebrate!

Jules Olitski

#22. Ninety-three was the war of Europe against France, and of France against Paris. And what was the Revolution? It was the victory of France over Europe, and of Paris over France. Hence the immensity of that terrible moment?, '93, greater than all the rest of the century

Victor Hugo

#23. When bad things happen, try not to think of them as problems...think of them as fascinating developments.

Hunter Vaughan

#24. 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