It's as if I were collaborating with mys... by Jim Hodges

Artist sculptor contemporary art installation Mixed Media

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

Other quotes by Jim Hodges

People

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

- Jim Hodges

Experience

Color is an intense experience on its own.

- Jim Hodges

Work

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

Art

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

- Jim Hodges

I think that some works are more accessible than others.

- Jim Hodges

Expression

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

- Jim Hodges

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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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Who sows virtue reaps honor.

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People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

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