Jim Hodges Quotes

#1. Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.

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#2. When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

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#3. Color is an intense experience on its own.

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#4. I'm an average person.

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#5. My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

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#6. But most people don't come up to me and express a lot of emotion.

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#7. Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.

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#8. My big concern is keeping people off the highways today, so that we have no further accidents

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#9. I think that some works are more accessible than others.

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#10. 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 be the same.

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#11. Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.

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#12. When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.

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#13. 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 up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences.

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#14. However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.

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#15. Our assignment comes with the alignment. Too many people look for the assignment without first finding their alignment.

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#16. I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.

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#17. There is a broad range of reaction to the work, as there is a broad range of work I make.

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#18. For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?

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#19. As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.

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#20. I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.

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#21. I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me.

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#22. 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 the material was the perfect answer for that.

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#23. I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references.

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#24. 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 it.

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