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I am 5ft 10in. I got my height from my dad, who was very rangy. I like being tall.
— Cornelia Parker
I have always had a bob haircut because my hair is so fine and doesn't like being long.
— Cornelia Parker
The best ideas come out of getting lost.
— Cornelia Parker
Art and creativity are crucial, whether you're a mathematician, a scientist, or an artist.
— Cornelia Parker
I try to avoid the 'art world' as much as possible. It's too much about fads and fashions - who's getting the best prices at auction and things like that.
— Cornelia Parker
I don't read the art mags. I read the newspapers.
— Cornelia Parker
I don't mind getting older; I just don't want to be in pain.
— Cornelia Parker
Maybe it's my Catholic upbringing - I grew up thinking that Armageddon was just around the corner - now I know it is, with global warming and all. I can keep it at bay by doing the work. It's a sort of reverse sympathetic magic. I'm always doing it so it doesn't happen to me.
— Cornelia Parker
If you conceal things, they become more charged.
— Cornelia Parker
I didn't make any money out of my art until I was in my 40s, but it preserved my sanity and my freedom.
— Cornelia Parker
You don't have to have angst to be an artist, but it's grist to the mill. If you want to explore the whole emotional spectrum in your work, it helps to have experienced intense emotions.
— Cornelia Parker
I don't drive for pleasure. It's purely to get from A to B.
— Cornelia Parker
I think I'm a feminist, hopefully by example. I just feel it's important to do as much as I can as a woman, to the best of my ability.
— Cornelia Parker
Traditional conceptual art is very dry.
— Cornelia Parker
You only get one life, so it seems to me you might as well do the things you want to do.
— Cornelia Parker
I am not a propagandist; my work has often had a political dimension but, hopefully, one that is not didactic and is open to interpretation.
— Cornelia Parker
Art historical reference is like learning to drive a car - you always know how to drive even though you're not analysing how.
— Cornelia Parker
I think your subconscious knows far more than your conscious, so I trust it.
— Cornelia Parker
I think design means, for me, almost when man, back in time, decided to do something conscious. You know... to shape something and make something different from just using things that were lying around. So whoever designed the wheel were onto a good thing.
— Cornelia Parker
Being a sculptor who uses found objects, all the objects I use in my work have been designed by other people. So I'm tweaking them in some way by squashing them or throwing them off cliffs! Then I formalise my damage by suspending them or arranging them in some kind of way. So I'm using other people's design in a way, so I'm an 'un-maker.'
— Cornelia Parker
Design impacts me in everything I do. Because, as I say, everything I own is designed. So the building I live in, the objects I choose to boil water in for example, even drinking vessels.
— Cornelia Parker
There's only a couple of coffee cups I'll use, because I like the way they feel in my hand. I realise I've got lots of others, but I won't use them because I just don't like... the thickness of the ceramic is too much, or the glaze isn't right.
— Cornelia Parker
At my degree show, someone said, 'It's nice, but it's very feminine.' I said, thank you, taking it as a compliment, but they obviously meant it as an insult.
— Cornelia Parker
I went to a quite macho art school in the 1970s, and while everyone was making hulking big sculptures, I was making things out of bits of paper.
— Cornelia Parker
I think it's quite obvious my work is made by a woman, because I have never wanted to make anything that is not ephemeral. But I definitely want to be thought of as an artist first.
— Cornelia Parker
I take things that are worn out through overuse, that have become cliches - like the shed, a traditional place of rest and retreat - and I give them a more incandescent future.
— Cornelia Parker
My work has threads of ideas from all over the place. I try to crystallise them in something simple and direct that the viewer can then take where they want.
— Cornelia Parker
I was selling bric-a-brac in Portobello and Camden Market. I love objects. But I was embarrassed by the idea of collecting, so I began using these things in my art.
— Cornelia Parker
I'm from a working-class background - I had free school meals all my life and then spent six years in art school.
— Cornelia Parker
Product design is fed by the avant-garde.
— Cornelia Parker
My iPhone has always been my sketchbook.
— Cornelia Parker
Who thought it would be a good idea to undermine art in the school curriculum? Who thought studying the history of our visual culture was a waste of time? Who thought that only private schools should have that privilege? Was it someone who said we don't need experts?
— Cornelia Parker
If it is good enough for Prince William and Kate, why is studying art history not good enough for the masses?
— Cornelia Parker
Our cultural industries are our biggest export, our biggest manufacturing base. Every pound spent on art education brings disproportionately large returns. It's the biggest bang for our buck. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. In fact, the more you put in, the greater the successes for the U.K. economy.
— Cornelia Parker
As a working-class girl, receiving free school dinners, I studied art history. Having never had the chance to visit art galleries, I devoured the knowledge, and it has served me well as a practising artist.
— Cornelia Parker
I was very physical as a child - we lived on a smallholding, and I was always outside making mud pies or building structures up trees.
— Cornelia Parker
I'm trying not to go through that midlife dip that artists tend to have.
— Cornelia Parker
As you get older, things don't work as well. I do Pilates, and that helps.
— Cornelia Parker
I didn't really know what I was looking at when I first came across Man Ray's 'Dust Breeding,' his photograph of a work by Marcel Duchamp called 'Large Glass.' It looked like an aerial photograph or a view through a microscope.
— Cornelia Parker
Dust, in the end, settles on everything.
— Cornelia Parker
My father wanted a boy badly and didn't get one, so I was happy to be the surrogate boy. I was very strong, always doing manual labour.
— Cornelia Parker
A lot of my work has been about stuff I've been frightened of: cliffs, explosions, meteorites, that kind of stuff. I would have been this trembling blob of fear if I hadn't got into making art, which is a good way of deferring it.
— Cornelia Parker
I can consciously say I like squashing things because I saw 'Tom and Jerry' films or Charlie Chaplin in 'Modern Times.' That's true.
— Cornelia Parker
What was the most important thing I learned from Chomsky? That capitalism compels us to work ourselves to death in order to stuff our houses with things we don't need. Perhaps this is one thing art can do: create a new aesthetic, one of austerity.
— Cornelia Parker
I was involved in a serious accident driving in torrential rain at midnight in Cardiff. I was only doing five miles an hour, but because I couldn't see very well, I crossed a junction and collided with another car that was driving very fast. I ended up in hospital for six weeks with a shattered pelvis.
— Cornelia Parker
Paul Auster is my favourite writer, and I'm sure he'd be a very interesting person to share a journey with.
— Cornelia Parker
I do think there is a link between the accidental art the sciences produce and the deliberate art the artist creates, but I can't help feeling that the innocence of the accidental art of science has a power and curious beauty that artists are hard-pressed to match.
— Cornelia Parker
I don't want to feel like an ambulance chaser, but very often, when I hear about a fire, my first instinct is to make a piece of art out of it.
— Cornelia Parker
Some people separate their work and home lives, but I love the idea of having my studio and house in the same space.
— Cornelia Parker
The idea of going off to an office every day and 'putting on my art hat' doesn't appeal.
— Cornelia Parker
I want to make work that reflects different times and processes.
— Cornelia Parker
I always feel my work is a chemical reaction between me and the world, wherever I happen to be.
— Cornelia Parker
I feel our relationship to life, to the rest of the world, is very tenuous. It feels fleeting.
— Cornelia Parker
I think my work is like a spiral: you keep coming back on yourself, but you're at a different place. It's like reading 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' every five years. You realise that some things have caught up.
— Cornelia Parker
I'd love to do something like put a piece of moon rock on Mars and a piece of Mars on the moon, a sort of reverse archaeology.
— Cornelia Parker
I started doing sculpture rather than painting. I was halfway through my degree, and I hadn't really done any introduction courses in sculpture... I'd missed all the technical stuff. I didn't really know how to weld or forge or carve or model. I'd sort of evaded all those technique classes, so I had no technique.
— Cornelia Parker
I don't want my work to be issue-based. I want people to be able to read it in lots of different ways.
— Cornelia Parker
My father was a very controlling man, and it was a big relief to get away from that.
— Cornelia Parker
At times, I've been incapacitated by anxiety and unhappiness. You really know what joy is if you have experienced the opposite.
— Cornelia Parker
Jeremy Corbyn makes me angry. He seems vain.
— Cornelia Parker
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