Quotes About Caio

#1. If you don't care about losing, you will focus on technique.

Caio Terra

#2. My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.

Caio Fonseca

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

Caio Fonseca

#4. Let's treat politicians like Twinkies. They have to disclose their ingredients - i.e., where their money is from - but beyond that, let the buyer beware.

Jonah Goldberg

#5. 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 the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.

Caio Fonseca

#6. 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

#7. Having vision is much more than just being visual.

Heru Ofori-Atta

#8. 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

#9. I get up to 400 letters a week, so I have a full-time PA, but I try to answer everything. People don't seem to realise that if they send something living in the post it's going to die on the way. Especially when you wrap it in a polythene bag.

Alan Titchmarsh

#10. In my room, the world is beyond my understanding; / But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four hills and a cloud. - WALLACE STEVENS, OF THE SURFACE OF THINGS

Rebecca Solnit

#11. When you really get technique ... there is no strength that will stop you.

Caio Terra

#12. 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 that sense of possibility.

Caio Fonseca

#13. Most guys would be happy to have a woman so vocal about her desires," he said in a voice several degrees huskier than before. "Half the time, we have no clue if a woman is enjoying herself."
"Really?"
"Not me. Just trying to represent for my maligned gender.

Kate Meader

#14. It's the place you would go if you wanted to buy a stereo system for under thirty-five dollars and didn't care if it sounded like the band was playing in a mailbox under water in a distant lake.

Bill Bryson

#15. Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.

Florence Welch

#16. 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

#17. Always work on the things you're not good at, because once you develop skills in those areas, you have no more fears.

Caio Terra

#18. 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.

Caio Fonseca

#19. If your friend is sick and dying, the most important thing he wants is not an explanation; he wants you to sit with him. He's terrified of being alone more than anything else. So, God has not left us alone.

Lee Strobel

#20. 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

#21. When you get a black belt, it's not the number of techniques you know, but how well you know them.

Caio Terra

#22. 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 to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.

Caio Fonseca

#23. The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks after birth, and to substitute in their place imps ...

Martin Luther

#24. From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.

Ella Maillart

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

Caio Fonseca

#26. Here, too, I found neither home nor company, nothing but a seat from which to view a stage where strange people played strange parts.

Hermann Hesse

#27. Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

George Gordon Byron

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

Caio Fonseca

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

Caio Fonseca

#30. And I did," Alex said. "I let her go. Because I did love her, and I did want her to be happy."

Hart, Megan (2015-03-01). Vanilla (Kindle Location 4400). MIRA. Kindle Edition.

Megan Hart

#31. I hate failure and I am in love with achievement.

Lil' Wayne

#32. 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 up.

Caio Fonseca

#33. It's not what you do, but HOW you do it. Because in the end everyone knows almost as much, just not the same way.

Caio Terra

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

Caio Fonseca

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

Caio Fonseca

#36. Always think of passing the ball before shooting it.

John Wooden