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

Cornelia Parker

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" Art historical reference is like learning to drive a car - you always know how to drive even though you're not analysing how.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

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

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

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

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" When I was a kid, my mother used to say, 'You always want to be different.' I couldn't work out what she meant. I was just trying to be myself. "

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

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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 don't particularly look at other artists when I'm working. But references do come into my work intuitively. "

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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. "

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" I always love the court fool in Shakespearean times, in Henry VIII's time. The fool can say all kinds of stuff that the other people can't say, so I'm hoping I might take that role. "

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

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" 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. "

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" I want to make work that reflects different times and processes. "

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

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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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" 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 you conceal things, they become more charged. "

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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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" Jeremy Corbyn makes me angry. He seems vain. "

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

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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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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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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