Caio Fonseca Quotes

Often I think changes within my work have been seen as sudden changes or sharp changes, but for me they're not that sudden. They have been there in the studio, but not so much in public.

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

I feel like I introduce another level of my creative ability on every album.

People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think if you like what a particular band or artist does, then you should want to see what they're going to do next.

I am only satisfied insofar as I feel 'Broadway Boogie Woogie' is a definite progress, but even about this picture I am not quite satisfied. There is still too much of the old in it.

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

Every time I write a song my approach changes.

In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.

For the last three years, I've been working on 'Bromst,' and that's all that encompassed my brain. And now that it's out, it will change the way that I think musically.

Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth.

I hope that in my thirties I grow as a writer, push into new territory.

If you're an impressionistic painter and you want to paint expressionism, you've got to change. You've got to figure out a way to do it and do it. If you've been playing jazz all your life and you want to start to play rock n' roll, blues, then do it.

Basically everything I've done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval method of working. I'll go back and use something that disgusted me 15 years ago but that I had enough sense to think about. Some artists change dramatically. I see my work more like history being written.

The trouble with progress is that it tends to happen slowly and quietly. It's not necessarily going to shout about itself, or make the nightly news like a disaster or a scandal would.

I'm growing as an artist and expanding my range, and not pigeonholing myself by doing the same thing, over and over.

In terms of growing as a songwriter, I'm just a guy who understands the craft better. I understand what I want to do with it. I think that's where I've grown. Have I fully achieved that? No, but I don't think you ever do. There's always room to grow.

Change is incremental and real change, enduring change, occurs one step at a time.

The fulfillment of America’s ideals will have to be sought in the patient accumulations of partial successes.

Artistic mediums go through phases where progress happens really rapidly, and then other moments where it slows down.

In music, they're not endlessly rewriting Beethoven's 'Third Symphony;' in visual art, they aren't painting portraits of 16th-century royalty. Art moves forward.

I see every new album as an opportunity to start over. To either build or improve upon a direction that has been evolving over time or to completely break new ground.

It is when you adapt that you truly grow. When you grow, you don't let your art become the breeding ground for inadequacies.

Each day I record I'm always doing something different that I've never done. So I feel like I'm a new artist every time I go to the studio.