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" Art and creativity are crucial, whether you're a mathematician, a scientist, or an artist. "

Cornelia Parker

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" I don't drive for pleasure. It's purely to get from A to B. "

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" 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 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. "

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" I want to make work that reflects different times and processes. "

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" My iPhone has always been my sketchbook. "

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" I didn't make any money out of my art until I was in my 40s, but it preserved my sanity and my freedom. "

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" I had two great art teachers at school, but even they tried to tell me it was too hard a world. But that made being an artist even more attractive. "

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" 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. "

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" I never got to play as a child. All my spare time was spent working on my family's smallholding. "

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" I always love the court fool in Shakespearean times, in Henry VIII's time. The fool can say all kinds of stuff that the other people can't say, so I'm hoping I might take that role. "

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" I have never fitted neatly into the arts section, I don't think. "

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" 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. "

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" If you conceal things, they become more charged. "

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" 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

" I think your subconscious knows far more than your conscious, so I trust it. "

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" Even though people think I am more of a conceptual artist, I am actually very intuitive. For me, it is still a matter of allowing things to naturally rise to the top of my mental pile, and then I make them. "

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" I like drawing from all kinds of territories in art. "

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" My parents were always doubtful about my making a living as an artist. Even when I was up for the Turner Prize, my mum suggested I apply for a curator's job. "

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" 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

" The idea of going off to an office every day and 'putting on my art hat' doesn't appeal. "

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" I don't read the art mags. I read the newspapers. "

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" I definitely didn't want children, because my childhood was not a very happy time. "

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. "

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" My father was a very controlling man, and it was a big relief to get away from that. "

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" Traditional conceptual art is very dry. "

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. "

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" I don't mind getting older; I just don't want to be in pain. "

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

" 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. "

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