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" I do 10 minutes of Pilates every morning if I'm in the mood. "
Cornelia Parker
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Pilates
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" There's only a couple of coffee cups I'll use, because I like the way they feel in my hand. I realise I've got lots of others, but I won't use them because I just don't like... the thickness of the ceramic is too much, or the glaze isn't right. "
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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 don't read the art mags. I read the newspapers. "
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" I gave birth aged 45, which was a bit of a shock. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I like the idea of taking three-dimensional objects and making them two-dimensional so that they look like cartoons. "
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" I don't drive for pleasure. It's purely to get from A to B. "
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" I have always had a bob haircut because my hair is so fine and doesn't like being long. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I have never fitted neatly into the arts section, I don't think. "
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" 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.' "
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" I was my father's sidekick, in a way. He was a very dominant, forceful character. "
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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 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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" Art and creativity are crucial, whether you're a mathematician, a scientist, or an artist. "
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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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" As you get older, things don't work as well. I do Pilates, and that helps. "
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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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" 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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" Maybe it's my Catholic upbringing - I grew up thinking that Armageddon was just around the corner - now I know it is, with global warming and all. I can keep it at bay by doing the work. It's a sort of reverse sympathetic magic. I'm always doing it so it doesn't happen to me. "
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" 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. "
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" I never got to play as a child. All my spare time was spent working on my family's smallholding. "
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