Jason Shawn Alexander famous quotes

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

#Ideas #Painting #Figures

I love the figure to get across what I feel.
-- Jason Shawn Alexander

#Figures #Feels

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

#Thinking #Long #Done

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

#Tattoo #People #Use

The figure is just the most represented tool to get thoughts and feelings across.
-- Jason Shawn Alexander

#Feelings #Tools #Figures

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

#Emotional #Want #Reason

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

#Space #Pieces #Kind

The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.

Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more, and when Rabbit went on to say that Kangas were only Fierce during the winter months, being at other times of an Affectionate Disposition, he could hardly sit still, he was so eager to begin being useful at once.

My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.

Together, these advocates create a pro-Israeli case so compelling that the idea and reality of Israel has worked itself deep into American culture, politics and foreign policy. Many American Jews refuse to accept it, but the real debate between Israel’s supporters and detractors in America is all but over.

My paintings are the last paintings one can make.

Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.

In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.

Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.

Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color.

I don't rely on my figure to sell records.