Jason Shawn Alexander quotes
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“When I paint figures it's never the idea of painting the beauty of the figure, it is using the figure to get across how I feel.”
-- Jason Shawn AlexanderSource : "An Interview with Jason Shawn Alexander & Sloan Schaffer : No Good At Exits Stuns @ 101/Exhibit’s 2nd Location". Interview with Franceasca Seiden, laicreatives.com. April 17, 2014.
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“I love the figure to get across what I feel.”
-- Jason Shawn AlexanderSource : "An Interview with Jason Shawn Alexander & Sloan Schaffer : No Good At Exits Stuns @ 101/Exhibit’s 2nd Location". Interview with Franceasca Seiden, laicreatives.com. April 17, 2014.
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“If you walk by something that I've done and you like it then I don't think I did what I was supposed to do. It should hit, it should either make you feel uncomfortable, or it should make you feel great, as long as it makes you feel something.”
-- Jason Shawn AlexanderSource : "An Interview with Jason Shawn Alexander & Sloan Schaffer : No Good At Exits Stuns @ 101/Exhibit’s 2nd Location". Interview with Franceasca Seiden, laicreatives.com. April 17, 2014.
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“I paint like an abstract painter everything is inside nothing is meant to be, I take tattoos off a people I take anything that's not necessarily going to be timeless. I want to get across what I feel and I just use the figure because I enjoy the figure.”
-- Jason Shawn AlexanderSource : "An Interview with Jason Shawn Alexander & Sloan Schaffer : No Good At Exits Stuns @ 101/Exhibit’s 2nd Location". Interview with Franceasca Seiden, laicreatives.com. April 17, 2014.
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“The figure is just the most represented tool to get thoughts and feelings across.”
-- Jason Shawn Alexander -
“I never want to paint anything just to make a pretty picture. The only reason I do this is because it's an outlet, it's emotional.”
-- Jason Shawn AlexanderSource : "An Interview with Jason Shawn Alexander & Sloan Schaffer : No Good At Exits Stuns @ 101/Exhibit’s 2nd Location". Interview with Franceasca Seiden, laicreatives.com. April 17, 2014.
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“I don't like literal spaces, I don't like literal anything. I still like some kind of guess work but some pieces work and they just pop.”
-- Jason Shawn AlexanderSource : "An Interview with Jason Shawn Alexander & Sloan Schaffer : No Good At Exits Stuns @ 101/Exhibit’s 2nd Location". Interview with Franceasca Seiden, laicreatives.com. April 17, 2014.
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