“Great art – or good art – is when you look at it, experience it and it
stays in your mind. I don’t think conceptual art and traditional art are
all that different. There’s boring conceptual art and there’s boring
traditional art. Great art is if you can’t stop thinking about it, then
it becomes a memory.”
For the Love of God (small diamond skull) Print by Damien Hirst
“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
