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" A lot of my stuff just wasn't saleable. I still don't do private or corporate commissions. It becomes like interior design. I don't enjoy it. The process makes me feel physically sick. "
Cornelia Parker
Me
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" 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. "
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" I want to make work that reflects different times and processes. "
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" 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. "
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Feel
Art
" I need eight hours of sleep, but I never get it except at weekends. "
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School
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Press
Interested
Am
" I never got to play as a child. All my spare time was spent working on my family's smallholding. "
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Time
Never
Family
" When I was a kid, my mother used to say, 'You always want to be different.' I couldn't work out what she meant. I was just trying to be myself. "
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Be Different
Work
" Driving a steamroller over an old trumpet or a teaspoon is no more destructive than taking a chisel to a lump of marble already torn from the landscape. But people don't see it that way because marble is considered noble. "
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" 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. "
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I Am
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" I definitely didn't want children, because my childhood was not a very happy time. "
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Children
Childhood
Time
" 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. "
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Boy
Strong
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Mind
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" 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. "
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" Beauty is too easy. Often in my work, I take beautiful objects and do extreme things to them so that they are overlaid with something a bit more sinister and violent. "
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