Jim Hodges famous 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.
-- Jim Hodges

#Titles #Scent #Might

Color is an intense experience on its own.
-- Jim Hodges

#Color #Experience #Intense

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

#Reality #Color #Expression

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

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

#Moving #Long #Firsts

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

#Reactions #Subtle #Should

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

#People #Today #Bigs

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.
-- Jim Hodges

#Relationship #Hands #Drawing

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

#Mirrors #Perfect #Waiting

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

#Holding On #Interest #Evidence

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.
-- Jim Hodges

#Strong #Perfect #Feelings

Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.
-- Jim Hodges

#Emotional #Pieces #Landscape

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.
-- Jim Hodges

#Growing Up #Writing #Emotional

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

#Thinking #Color #People

I think that some works are more accessible than others.
-- Jim Hodges

#Thinking

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

#Next #Lineage #Standing

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

#Strong #Emotional #Reactions

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

#People #Emotion #Come Up

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

#Art #Thinking #Architecture

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

#Work #Work Out #Next