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

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….

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 ….

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..

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

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..

People see so many things in the paintings. Although I never think of them, it charms me a little bit that people actually project actual scenarios o….

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

Everyone accepts the abstraction of Bach. My work aspires to the same kind of abstraction, which is so engaging that you're distracted from asking ab….

One of the most important elements of Caio-ness I wanted to keep was that left to right reading, where one form draws you... this movement in what is….

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….

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 har….

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

I try not to bring in anything I don't love looking at. It's about restaint ... There is something about an unfinished quality that leaves within you….

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

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 ….

This morning I got up early and I was glazing the paintings and they just looked so beautiful. I had a private moment of "yeah, I'm behind this." Whi….

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 you….

I was never exposed to art school. I grew up in an artist's studio. I was exposed a lot of studio time between of my father and a great painter I stu….

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 ….

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 ….