Caio Fonseca Quotes - Page 2

• For me becoming a painter was an Everest, in terms of what I thought a painter was. There are many roads to becoming an artist. For me it wasn't art school. I didn't have that go to art school and then get a gallery. It's more like, how deep is your inner library to cull from. It's certainly not about technical prowess, just about depth of investigation. It takes time. I had 15 years of painting under my belt before my first New York show. I was glad to have that. It's a good thing to spend your twenties getting your craft.

  Caio Fonseca

  Art, School, Library

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

• 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. If you stop asking what they mean, or what they remind you of, and just look at them for 29 seconds, you find that they want to explain themselves and show you how much every tiniest detail is related to the whole.

  Caio Fonseca

  Real, Mean, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

Isabel Fonseca

Adam Fuss

Vik Muniz