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" 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

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" At times, I've been incapacitated by anxiety and unhappiness. You really know what joy is if you have experienced the opposite. "

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

" After leaving college, I was in a show called Sculpture by Women where I was asked to talk about my history of victimisation in art, and I genuinely didn't think I had been victimised. Although I obviously believe in a lot of the feminist aspirations, I was wary about being dragged down by the politics of it. "

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

" I'm trying not to go through that midlife dip that artists tend to have. "

Cornelia Parker

" Dust, in the end, settles on everything. "

Cornelia Parker

" I was my father's sidekick, in a way. He was a very dominant, forceful character. "

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

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

Cornelia Parker

" 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. "

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

" I always feel my work is a chemical reaction between me and the world, wherever I happen to be. "

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

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

Cornelia Parker

" The best ideas come out of getting lost. "

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 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

" 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'm from a working-class background - I had free school meals all my life and then spent six years in art school. "

Cornelia Parker

" I am 5ft 10in. I got my height from my dad, who was very rangy. I like being tall. "

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

" I'm not very party-political, really; I am more strategic than that. "

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

" If people say, 'You can't do that,' you can be sure I will do my utmost to do it. "

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

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

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

" Paul Auster is my favourite writer, and I'm sure he'd be a very interesting person to share a journey with. "

Cornelia Parker

" 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. "

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