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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.

From Caio Fonseca

All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.

From Caio Fonseca

It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.

From Caio Fonseca

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.

From Caio Fonseca

So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.

From Caio Fonseca

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 see big new categories opened up.

From Caio Fonseca

Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.

From Caio Fonseca

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 possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.

From Caio Fonseca

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.

From Caio Fonseca

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 that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.

From Caio Fonseca

Caio Fonseca

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