I move very slowly. It's ...

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

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When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.
 Jim Hodges
Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.
 Jim Hodges
My big concern is keeping people off the highways today, so that we have no further accidents.
 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