"My forms are not abstractions of things in……" — Caio Fonseca
"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 forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic."
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Caio Fonseca
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17 Quotes by 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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More Abstraction Quotes
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Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
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That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
— Sarah Caldwell
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
— Paul Cezanne
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So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
— Deepak Chopra
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Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience,…
— Leo Buscaglia
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The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of…
— Evelyn Underhill
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The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor…
— Emma Goldman
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The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.
— Piet Mondrian
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Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.
— Paul Gauguin
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The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal…
— George Boole
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It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a…
— Alexander Hamilton
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