"Most people draw from the mind, not the……" — Caio Fonseca
"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. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape."
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Caio Fonseca
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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…
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All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.
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I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most…
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It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.
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Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.
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My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.
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Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
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The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.
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I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a…
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I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it.…
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I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to…
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