Jim Hodges Quotes
"Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological."
- Jim Hodges
"When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting."
- Jim Hodges
(Related: Waiting)
"When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process."
- Jim Hodges
(Related: Art, Ability)
"My latest works are these things with light bulbs."
- Jim Hodges
(Related: Light)
"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
"I'm an average person."
- Jim Hodges
"I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me."
- Jim Hodges
(Related: Work, Meaning)
"I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things."
- Jim Hodges
"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
(Related: Work, Development, Autobiography, Growing up, Trying)
"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
(Related: Life, Change, History, Feeling)
"Color is an intense experience on its own."
- Jim Hodges
(Related: Experience)
"Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing."
- Jim Hodges
(Related: Work)
"I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references."
- Jim Hodges
(Related: People)
"But most people don't come up to me and express a lot of emotion."
- Jim Hodges
(Related: People, Emotion)
"As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me."
- Jim Hodges
(Related: Work)
"Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality."
- Jim Hodges
(Related: Expression, Reality)
"For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?"
- Jim Hodges
(Related: Thought)
"However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it."
- Jim Hodges
(Related: Work)
"I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time."
- Jim Hodges
(Related: Time, First)
"I think that some works are more accessible than others."
- Jim Hodges