Jim Hodges quotes
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“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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“Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.”
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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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“However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.”
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“My big concern is keeping people off the highways today, so that we have no further accidents”
-- Jim HodgesSource : "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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“When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.”
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“I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.”
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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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“Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.”
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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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“I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references.”
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“I think that some works are more accessible than others.”
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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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“As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.”
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“But most people don't come up to me and express a lot of emotion.”
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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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“Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.”
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