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" Dust, in the end, settles on everything. "
Cornelia Parker
Dust
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" 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. "
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" I always feel my work is a chemical reaction between me and the world, wherever I happen to be. "
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" Traditional conceptual art is very dry. "
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" I was my father's sidekick, in a way. He was a very dominant, forceful character. "
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" I think I was a late developer because I'd been stuck in the country and was a little bit shy and withdrawn. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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 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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" You only get one life, so it seems to me you might as well do the things you want to do. "
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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. "
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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 do 10 minutes of Pilates every morning if I'm in the mood. "
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" I was involved in a serious accident driving in torrential rain at midnight in Cardiff. I was only doing five miles an hour, but because I couldn't see very well, I crossed a junction and collided with another car that was driving very fast. I ended up in hospital for six weeks with a shattered pelvis. "
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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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" 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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" The idea of going off to an office every day and 'putting on my art hat' doesn't appeal. "
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Hat
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" 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. "
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" I need eight hours of sleep, but I never get it except at weekends. "
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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 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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" If people say, 'You can't do that,' you can be sure I will do my utmost to do it. "
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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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" 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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" Paul Auster is my favourite writer, and I'm sure he'd be a very interesting person to share a journey with. "
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" I was selling bric-a-brac in Portobello and Camden Market. I love objects. But I was embarrassed by the idea of collecting, so I began using these things in my art. "
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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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