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Jim Hodges

"Color is an intense experience on its own."

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"Color is an intense experience on its own."

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"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."

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"Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice."

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"I loved your breaking down that door, repeated Djuna. Through Rango she had breathed some other realm she had never attained before. She had touched through his act some climate of violence she had never known before."

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"Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash, light blue, light mauve, and the darker ones, velvet and purple, black cat's ears in the sun, indigo shadow, and the bleeding hearts, so female in shape it was a surprise they'd not long since been rooted out. There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to say: Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently."

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Amber Hurdle

"Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work."

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"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."

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"To 'live' is to realize that without the journey the destination is nothing more than a task rigorously completed rather than an experience riotously lived."

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"Perfume counters in department stores, Holly Deblin smells of, the middle of July, and cinnamon Tic Tacs."

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"The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more pre-edited and slicked up, and as even its so-called reality sites raised questions about authenticity in the minds of the viewers, the rough, unpolished physical world was taking on a mystic allure."

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Amber Hurdle

"I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think."

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"When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process."
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"There is a broad range of reaction to the work, as there is a broad range of work I make."
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"However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it."
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"But most people don't come up to me and express a lot of emotion."
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"Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality."
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"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."
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"For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?"
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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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"I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time."
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"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."
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