Jim Hodges Quotes

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.

Color is an intense experience on its own.

Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I think that some works are more accessible than others.

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.