"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."

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Source : "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.

Jason Shawn Alexander

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“These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.”
“The Q I loathe and despise, the Q every single writer I know loathes and despises, is this one: 'Where,' the reader asks, 'do you get your ideas?' It's a simple question, and my usual response is a kind of helpless, 'I don't know.'”
“Just as women needed the help of the law to enter the workplace in the 20th century, men will need the help of the law to love their children in the 21st century.”
“There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.”
“Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”
“My aim is a continuous, sustained, uncontrived image, motivated by nothing but passion.”
“Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.”

Source : "A life in the arts: Simon Callow". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2011.
“There had been a frozen mist here, and the trees were spun into feathers. Their fragile brilliance made me wonder why, into the spotlessness of Creation, God had seen fit to introduce soiling, twisting, rampaging, Man.”

Source : Maria McCann (2010). “The Wilding”, p.263, Faber & Faber

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