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

Cornelia Parker

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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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" Who thought it would be a good idea to undermine art in the school curriculum? Who thought studying the history of our visual culture was a waste of time? Who thought that only private schools should have that privilege? Was it someone who said we don't need experts? "

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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. "

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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. "

Cornelia Parker

" I think my work is like a spiral: you keep coming back on yourself, but you're at a different place. It's like reading 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' every five years. You realise that some things have caught up. "

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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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" 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 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. "

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. "

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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. "

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

" 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. "

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

" 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.' "

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

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

" 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

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

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

" 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. "

Cornelia Parker

" I think I was a late developer because I'd been stuck in the country and was a little bit shy and withdrawn. "

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

" Driving a steamroller over an old trumpet or a teaspoon is no more destructive than taking a chisel to a lump of marble already torn from the landscape. But people don't see it that way because marble is considered noble. "

Cornelia Parker

" I am not a propagandist; my work has often had a political dimension but, hopefully, one that is not didactic and is open to interpretation. "

Cornelia Parker

" I don't want my work to be issue-based. I want people to be able to read it in lots of different ways. "

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