This morning I got up early and I was glazing the paintings and they just looked so beautiful. I had a private moment of "yeah, I'm behind this." Which is all that matters as an artist, to believe in what… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
I had a visit from an artist friend who basically said, "Your paintings are wonderful. Now stop." It did resonate with me. It hit… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
I've been playing piano my whole life but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand. I don't have professional pretensions. I've learned so much. So many things I've been doing in the visual, two-dimensional painting… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share
It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be. — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
One of the most important elements of Caio-ness I wanted to keep was that left to right reading, where one form draws you... this movement in what is otherwise a fairly still art, that sense of pulling the eye. It involves a sense of time. To me that's esoteric and magical and playful, and if a painting doesn't have that,… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share
Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting. — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school. — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
Everyone accepts the abstraction of Bach. My work aspires to the same kind of abstraction, which is so engaging that you're distracted from asking… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
For me becoming a painter was an Everest, in terms of what I thought a painter was. There are many roads to becoming an… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
