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…

- 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…

- 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 har…

- Caio Fonseca

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

- 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.

- 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

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

- 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 …

- Caio Fonseca

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…

- Caio Fonseca