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" 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. "

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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

Been

Anxiety

You

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

" I don't skip meals, because I get blood sugary. "

" Art and creativity are crucial, whether you're a mathematician, a scientist, or an artist. "

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

Cornelia Parker

Reaction

Always

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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

" My mother became mentally unwell with schizophrenia when I was in my teens... We couldn't watch television because she thought the people on TV were sending her messages. She thought there were hidden cameras everywhere, so we had to have the curtains drawn. "

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

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

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

Cornelia Parker

Art

Drawing

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

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

Cornelia Parker

Idea

Look

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

Cornelia Parker

Way

Father

" 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

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

" I don't want to feel like an ambulance chaser, but very often, when I hear about a fire, my first instinct is to make a piece of art out of it. "

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

Cornelia Parker

Far

Trust

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Traditional conceptual art is very dry. "

" 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

Always

Artist

" The best ideas come out of getting lost. "

" My iPhone has always been my sketchbook. "

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

" 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. "