Jim Hodges Quotes

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• Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.
• When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.
• Color is an intense experience on its own.
• But most people don't come up to me and express a lot of emotion.
• As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.
• For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?
• I think that some works are more accessible than others.
• I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references.
• I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing…
• Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.
• I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and…
• Words can be applied as one might put on a scent, such as perfume. Some scents are so wonderful and others are sickening... titles can…
• When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.
• It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit…
• My big concern is keeping people off the highways today, so that we have no further accidents
• I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.
• I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.
• I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me.
• However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.
• Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.

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