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" Artists and scientists both think outside the box. They've got to come with genius experiments or ideas to expose the most interesting phenomena. "

Cornelia Parker

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" 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. "

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

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" I feel our relationship to life, to the rest of the world, is very tenuous. It feels fleeting. "

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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. "

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" 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. "

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" If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill. "

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" I don't particularly look at other artists when I'm working. But references do come into my work intuitively. "

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

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" People often want the big dramatic works, not the smaller quieter ones, but I don't worry about how it fits together anymore; I just have to do it. I feel compelled to make a work: it's like an itch I have to scratch, and once it's been scratched, it goes away. "

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" My iPhone has always been my sketchbook. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" To make large, site-specific work as an artist is usually quite tortuous; there are so many boxes you have to tick. "

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" I like the idea of taking three-dimensional objects and making them two-dimensional so that they look like cartoons. "

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" When people listen to music, they don't worry about what it means like they do about art. Everyone's an expert on music, but with art, I always find I have to defend its existence. "

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

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" I have always had a bob haircut because my hair is so fine and doesn't like being long. "

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" 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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" 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. "

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