“It is very easy to carry out self-criticism at a given moment, for example on the occasion of an exhibition of works produced within a more or less short span of time. But when it comes to work carried out over long and changing years, it becomes more difficult, because there are errors that are justified by certain aspects of the environment, and as this too changes, there are successes that did not find resonance at the time and could not be developed. With the passing of the years, it is only persistence in one’s work that comes to define an indefinite initial purpose of the painter.” — Gonzalo Ariza