Top 24 Quotes & Sayings by Jim Hodges

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American politician Jim Hodges.

Last updated on December 25, 2024.

James Hovis Hodges is an American businessman, attorney, and politician who served as the 114th governor of South Carolina from 1999 to 2003. Since his victory in 1998, Hodges has remained the only Democrat elected to the South Carolina Governor's office since the 1982 election.

American - Politician | Born: November 19, 1956

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

Jim Hodges

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

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

Jim Hodges

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

Jim Hodges

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

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

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

Jim Hodges

I think that some works are more accessible than others.

Jim Hodges

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

Jim Hodges

Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.

Jim Hodges

Color is an intense experience on its own.

Jim Hodges

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

Jim Hodges

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

Jim Hodges

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

Jim Hodges

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

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Jim Hodges

There is a broad range of reaction to the work, as there is a broad range of work I make.

Jim Hodges

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

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

Jim Hodges

I'm an average person.

Jim Hodges

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

Jim Hodges

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

Jim Hodges

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.

Jim Hodges

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

Jim Hodges

Top 24 Quotes & Sayings by Jim Hodges

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