“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. I don't have professional pretensions. I've learned so much. So many things I've been doing in the visual, two-dimensional painting world parallel many of the inner working of music - how intervals resolve into each other, harmonic rhythm, tonal things - there's a whole vocabulary that overlaps. Sometimes people see pianos in my works - that I never think.” PeopleThinkingWorldTryingSometimesImaginePaintingWhole LifeRhythmAspirationResolveCompositionPretension Author:Caio Fonseca
“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.” WorldGivingMeanRealTogetherInterestRealizingIdentityLogicReal WorldQuirky Author: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.” PeopleWorldArtI CanRealArtistTypePagesFinancialHandleReal World Author:Caio Fonseca
“The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.” WorldArtPaintingArt World Author:Caio Fonseca
“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.” WorldWayGivingRealTogetherJobsFormInterestRealizingIdentityLogicSymbolsReal WorldAbstractionQuirky Author:Caio Fonseca
