6 Quotes by María Gainza

I never used to resort to quotations very much but in these past months I have read like a convict—yes, a convict, that’s the word. I have also realized that being good with quotations means avoiding having to think for oneself.

Some details are lost to time, and in fact it’s for the best. To ever feel that you understand anything only means that your mind has turned rigid.

Isn’t all artwork—or all decent art—a mirror? Might a great painting not even reformulate the question what is it about to what am I about? Isn’t theory also in some sense always autobiography?

Mal administrada, la historia del arte puede ser letal como la estricnina.

el estilo es un medio para insistir sobre algo.

Puedo inventar cualquier cosa, no tengo problemas éticos con la mentira, mi límite es el mismo de los programas de chimentos de la tele: no involucro a menores de edad.