Caio Fonseca Quotes

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• I try not to bring in anything I don't love looking at. It's about restaint ... There is something about an unfinished quality that leaves…
• All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.
• I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.
• It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.
• Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.
• My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.
• Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
• So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
• The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.
• I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was…
• 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 of…
• 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…
• If you come every day or every month to my studio, you won't see that much change, but if you come once a year, you'll…
• 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 them.…
• My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these…
• My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in…
• When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once,…

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