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" 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

Knowledge

History

School

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Reaction

Always

" 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. "

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Thinking

Work

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

" I gave birth aged 45, which was a bit of a shock. "

" Some people separate their work and home lives, but I love the idea of having my studio and house in the same space. "

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

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Far

Trust

" Violence is part of everybody's life, whether you like or express it or not. My work utilises all the energies that I have, and part of it is violent, and I'd rather it be out than in. "

Cornelia Parker

Life

You

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" My iPhone has always been my sketchbook. "

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" The best ideas come out of getting lost. "

" 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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Become

Future

" Jeremy Corbyn makes me angry. He seems vain. "

" I need eight hours of sleep, but I never get it except at weekends. "

" 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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Child

Mud

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Way

Father

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