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When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out – so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don’t need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.

– Caio Fonseca

Caio Fonseca

My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.

– Caio Fonseca

Caio Fonseca

Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.

– Caio Fonseca

Caio Fonseca

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.

– Caio Fonseca

Caio Fonseca

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.

– Caio Fonseca

Caio Fonseca

The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.

– Caio Fonseca

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.

– Caio Fonseca

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.

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Caio Fonseca

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

– Caio Fonseca

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.

– Caio Fonseca

Caio Fonseca

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

– Caio Fonseca

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.

– Caio Fonseca

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