Jim Hodges Quotes

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.

Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I think that some works are more accessible than others.

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