28 Quotes by Caio Fonseca
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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’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.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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It’s not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.
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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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