Jim Hodges Quotes

Everything I make starts very personally.

All my songs are where I am.

You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it.

For me, all the materials and objects I employ come from a specific space that's very personal.

I found I am not an anarchistic form creator; I'm intuitive, and I'm trying to figure out a way to explore human fragility.

It's such a private thing - 'my process' - I can just say that the work that I do is like therapy between me and the character.

I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.

The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.

I paint a slice of life, whatever it is that day.

All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for color. But drawing is always my notation.

A lot of my work comes from my life experiences.

You are always drawing from your personal life and using your imagination to fill in the blanks.

The importance of art is in the process of doing it, in the learning experience where the artist interacts with whatever is being made.

My films are always a reflection of where I am in my life.

If you're writing for yourself as an artist, you are always pulling on your own experiences.

I suppose I consider my work a kind of picture making.

I would say that 'After the Storm' is much more informed by my personal life than my other movies.

As an artist, one of the ingredients to doing good work is self-awareness, and that's something I cultivate.

Things just kind of stick with me, and writing, for me, is always an investigation into my own feelings about them. I wonder why things stick to me, and I try to synthesize those into a dramatic experience in some ways.

I always find another version of myself in each of my films.

Your music essentially reflects everything you do, everything you've been through, in the deepest part of you.

I've always felt the portrait is an occasion for marks to happen. I've never viewed the portrait as about the sitter. Even when I go to the National Portrait Gallery, I'm not thinking about the sitter; I'm thinking about how the artist chose that color or that highlight. It becomes about the time, place, and context.

If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit.