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

~Caio Fonseca

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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 imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand.

~Caio Fonseca

Topics: Aspiration Been Had How Imagine Just Life Loved Made Never Now Painted Paintings Piano Playing Really Tried Try Understand Whole You Your

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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.

~Caio Fonseca

Topics: Abstraction Also Engage Forms Give Identity Inner Intelligence Interest Invent Job Keeps Logic Put Quirky Real Real World Realize Say Symbols The Real World Them Things Together Way World Would You Your

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

~Caio Fonseca

Topics: Category Hidden Many Meanings Need Paintings Texts Wall Work

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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.

~Caio Fonseca

Topics: Big Categories Change Come Day Every Every Day Month Much New Once Once A Year Opened See Studio Up Year You

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

~Caio Fonseca

Topics: Art Art School Good Good Idea Idea Just Just One Lot Out Painting Requires School Something Time

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

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

~Caio Fonseca

Topics: Artists Became Brother Costume Designer Novelist Painter Sibling Sister

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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 people don't talk about art.

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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. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.

~Caio Fonseca

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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