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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

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" 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.' "

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

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" If I was prime minister, I would declare a state of emergency on climate change. "

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" Living in a warehouse is great - but after a while, you just want a garden. "

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" I do think there is a link between the accidental art the sciences produce and the deliberate art the artist creates, but I can't help feeling that the innocence of the accidental art of science has a power and curious beauty that artists are hard-pressed to match. "

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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. "

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

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" The best ideas come out of getting lost. "

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

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" My mother was German, and I was brought up with 'Struwwelpeter' stories, which are invested with all sorts of horrors waiting for you if you do the wrong thing. "

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

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" That's the problem with working and living in the same space - my studio is downstairs, so I often get distracted by domestic things. "

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" 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. "

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" My iPhone has always been my sketchbook. "

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" 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. "

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

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" As you get older, things don't work as well. I do Pilates, and that helps. "

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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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" Product design is fed by the avant-garde. "

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

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

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

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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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" My mother became mentally unwell with schizophrenia when I was in my teens... We couldn't watch television because she thought the people on TV were sending her messages. She thought there were hidden cameras everywhere, so we had to have the curtains drawn. "

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" 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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