Jason Shawn Alexander Quotes

#1. 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 Alexander

#2. 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 Alexander

#3. 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 Alexander

#4. The figure is just the most represented tool to get thoughts and feelings across.

Jason Shawn Alexander

#5. 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 Alexander

#6. I love the figure to get across what I feel.

Jason Shawn Alexander

#7. 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 Alexander