Jim Hodges Quotes

Emotional information is very, very rich in influence. You're giving somebody something to connect with, to see themselves in.

Any piece of art has the potential to emotionally touch you and nudge you.

I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself.

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

It's hard to explain your emotions when you see a work of art.

If art doesn't move people, then art has failed.

To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some way, big or small.

I just want to make art that connects with people and moves them on an emotional level. Any time I can put out music and place a story behind it and have people watch it and go, 'Wow, I was affected by that,' to me, feels like I've done my job.

I think my job is hopefully to connect with people emotionally and to feel less alone or understand things in a certain way.

I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and other parts that will play down.

If the picture speaks to me, if it tells me something about myself, then I want it. Then I have to have it.

I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.

That's what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.

I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul.

If I'm not moved from one spot to another, internally, while I'm witnessing it, reading it, consuming it, whatever, I don't know why we're being asked to the party.

Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.

There's a difference between art and entertainment. Entertainment is really about forgetting about your life, and art is about remembering your life.

The emotions you see when you watch 'Narcos,' they're pretty much my emotions and the way I would react if I were there. It's not something you create; all of us have everything inside ourselves.

I think people will discover themselves in 'Ankahee.'

I've talked with friends about this: when you write about yourself, that's what people connect to. When you write a sermon or a lesson, that may not reach people. I've learned a lot from people who have been writing about themselves.

When I read, I don't need a character to look like me, act like me, or think like me. I don't need to have my heart broken. I don't need to be surprised or amused or challenged, and I don't need to swoon.

What makes art powerful is a flash of recognition, a frightening encounter with something familiar about the human condition.

When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.

People often reach out and comment on how they relate to my lyrics, which makes me feel very warm inside.