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" I can consciously say I like squashing things because I saw 'Tom and Jerry' films or Charlie Chaplin in 'Modern Times.' That's true. "

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

" 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

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

Cornelia Parker

" 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. "

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

" 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

" 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

" 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

" A lot of my stuff just wasn't saleable. I still don't do private or corporate commissions. It becomes like interior design. I don't enjoy it. The process makes me feel physically sick. "

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

" I like drawing from all kinds of territories in art. "

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

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 think I was a late developer because I'd been stuck in the country and was a little bit shy and withdrawn.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

Cornelia Parker

" 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

" I do 10 minutes of Pilates every morning if I'm in the mood. "

Cornelia Parker

" 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. "

Cornelia Parker

" Artists and scientists both think outside the box. They've got to come with genius experiments or ideas to expose the most interesting phenomena. "

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

" I don't drive for pleasure. It's purely to get from A to B. "

Cornelia Parker

" My iPhone has always been my sketchbook. "

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

" You only get one life, so it seems to me you might as well do the things you want to do. "

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

" Art historical reference is like learning to drive a car - you always know how to drive even though you're not analysing how. "

Cornelia Parker

" If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill. "

Cornelia Parker

" Traditional conceptual art is very dry. "

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