“For me, transcending is like a jolt of bliss. You’re in one place, and then you dip into the transcendent, the field of pure consciousness. It’s like being plugged into an electric circuit; you get a jolt of happiness. It’s very beautiful. And the more you practice this technique, the longer you stay in the transcendent. Short beautiful rides lead to longer beautiful rides. I always say it’s like gold coming in and garbage going out. When you transcend and you’ve experienced this happiness, you have less stress, less depression, less sadness, less fear, less hate, less bitter anger—all negativity starts to dissipate the more you transcend. You start feeling better. You start acting better. You start enjoying more.” — David Lynch
“I still think science is looking for answers and art is looking for questions.” ⠀ Quinn sees the skeleton as representative of an everyman, an abstraction of a person since it is the part of the body which transcends death. The sculptures Angel and Waiting for Godot take the form of a praying skeleton and are an ironic reference to the idea of waiting for answers – or for some kind of external power to guide our life. ⠀ Marc Quinn Waiting for Godot 2006 Patinated bronze 77h x 37w x 76.5d cm
“Truth is, when you’ve spilled your confessions all over the Internet as a raging teenager, there is no end to the world of cringe. Yet, its very essence and conscience remains clear. In a universe of new social media platforms that pop up every now and then, Tumblr has always been less about the ‘social’, and more of the…everything else. It maintains its anonymity; you could exist as completely different entities of yourself, the selves you never want to let people in the real world perceive you for—whether you’re 13 and insecure, or well, 27 (and still insecure!).”
