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Caio Fonseca

American Artist

Born: 1959

Art Day Life Painting World You

Related authors: Andy Warhol Jackson Pollock Jean-Michel Basquiat Jeff Koons Kehinde Wiley Keith Haring Yoko Ono

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

Good You Know Until How Very Going Works Phase Last

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

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

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

Work Hidden Category Texts Wall Meanings Many Paintings Need

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

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

Life Painting Physical Magic Per Mysterious Partake Particularly Dead Halfway Returns Just Anything Interested Canvas Paint Elements

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

Art World Nothing Painting Art World

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

Wear Table Dried Over Also Covered Uniform Hard Paint

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

Day Rest Practice Painting Spend Piano Mornings Days Most

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