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.

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  Titles, Scent, Might

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• Color is an intense experience on its own.

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  Color, Experience, Intense

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

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  Reality, Expression, Color

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

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  People, Looks, Firsts

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

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  Mirrors, Perfect, Waiting

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

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  Holding On, Interest, Evidence

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

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

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

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  Work, Work Out, Next

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

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  Reactions, Subtle, Should

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

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

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  Moving, Long, Firsts

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

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  People, Today, Bigs

  "South Carolina Governor Discusses Snowstorm". "CNN Live Today" with Daryn Kagan, www.cnn.com. January 3, 2002.

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• 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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  Relationship, Hands, Drawing

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

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  Strong, Emotional, Reactions

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

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  People, Emotion, Come Up

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• Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.

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  Emotional, Pieces, Landscape

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• 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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  Growing Up, Writing, Emotional

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

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  Thinking, Color, People

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• I think that some works are more accessible than others.

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  Thinking

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

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  Next, Lineage, Standing

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• 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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  Strong, Perfect, Feelings

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