- Lia do Rio: When I got into art I started to speak, I think it's my language
- Lia do Rio: Every being is sensitive
- Lia do Rio: I believe that every human being can be an artist if he wants to, it's a matter of perceiving a new aspect of the same things that are there
- Lia do Rio: It is the artist's work that speaks, we do not speak with words but with work
- Lia do Rio: The window itself is a separation between inside and outside
- Lia do Rio: My work feels performative when people see me
- Lia do Rio: From the beginning, I felt that my works had to do with the places where they were inserted; it's a matter of going out normally not looking for a place but a place that calls to us
- Lia do Rio: I use several languages but it is the work itself that makes me choose the language in which it should be done
- Lia do Rio: When I find material that interests me, or an interesting situation occurs, I keep that material; and I think that it is somehow stored and, at a given moment, it flows into that it has to be done
- Lia do Rio: This already generated a question to myself: what is it that selects a certain image in the mind?
- Lia do Rio: It looks like magic but it's not.
- Lia do Rio: The work of art itself is a questioning of something perceived and that through the work you end up talking in some way
- Lia do Rio: It's the unknowns of the world that attract me
- Lia do Rio: What makes an object a work of art? Is it the idea, is it the concept that is there? Is it the difference? I don't know
- Lia do Rio: One thing I realized, after many works, is that time, or timelessness, or timelessness, is always there; this issue of time appears; I think what is time? is the unknown: what is he? It's not clock time I'm talking about, it's eternal time, it's becoming time
- Lia do Rio: I don't work with memory, materials often carry a memory
- Lia do Rio: It's not the artist's job to go there and think, it's what happens too
- Lia do Rio: It seems that the artist is a person who is out of the air, isn't he, he is super connected in another dimension, in other things that are not the things that people are normally connected to
- Lia do Rio: So, it's the resizing of our certainties, that's what I consider a work of art, that's what it is
- Lia do Rio: Functionality, practicality, it doesn't have it, but it's thinking, it's a way of thinking
- Lia do Rio: It is the desire of human beings to know, to know, perhaps, the whole