28 Quotes by Caio Fonseca

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

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.

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.

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

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 paint, and Crocs.

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.

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