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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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" 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

Dimension

I Am

Open

" My iPhone has always been my sketchbook. "

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

Cornelia Parker

Really

Strategic

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

" 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

Beauty

Work

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

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

" The idea of going off to an office every day and 'putting on my art hat' doesn't appeal. "

" I was my father's sidekick, in a way. He was a very dominant, forceful character. "

Cornelia Parker

Way

Father

" I was very physical as a child - we lived on a smallholding, and I was always outside making mud pies or building structures up trees. "

Cornelia Parker

Child

Mud

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

" 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. "

" Artists and scientists are very close. They always have been, but I think we've just been divided out over the last few centuries into specialisms. Leonardo da Vinci was drawing helicopters and all kinds of things. We're artificially divided. I think we're closer than we think we are. "

" 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. "

" 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

Mars

Something

" 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.' "

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

" 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

School

Art

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

Cornelia Parker

Art

Drawing

" A lot of my work has been about stuff I've been frightened of: cliffs, explosions, meteorites, that kind of stuff. I would have been this trembling blob of fear if I hadn't got into making art, which is a good way of deferring it. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Cornelia Parker

Become

Future

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

" I like the idea of taking three-dimensional objects and making them two-dimensional so that they look like cartoons. "

Cornelia Parker

Idea

Look

" 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. "

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

" I am interested in the press and what they do. "

Cornelia Parker

Press

Interested

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

" 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. "