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

Cornelia Parker

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

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

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" When people listen to music, they don't worry about what it means like they do about art. Everyone's an expert on music, but with art, I always find I have to defend its existence. "

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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 don't read the art mags. I read the newspapers. "

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" 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

" I was involved in a serious accident driving in torrential rain at midnight in Cardiff. I was only doing five miles an hour, but because I couldn't see very well, I crossed a junction and collided with another car that was driving very fast. I ended up in hospital for six weeks with a shattered pelvis. "

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" 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. "

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" I didn't make any money out of my art until I was in my 40s, but it preserved my sanity and my freedom. "

Cornelia Parker

" I never got to play as a child. All my spare time was spent working on my family's smallholding. "

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

" 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. "

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

" If you cut art from school, you're going to have a lot more looted shops. "

Cornelia Parker

" I feel our relationship to life, to the rest of the world, is very tenuous. It feels fleeting. "

Cornelia Parker

" 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. "

Cornelia Parker

" Living in a warehouse is great - but after a while, you just want a garden. "

Cornelia Parker

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

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

" 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

" 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

" 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. "

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

" What was the most important thing I learned from Chomsky? That capitalism compels us to work ourselves to death in order to stuff our houses with things we don't need. Perhaps this is one thing art can do: create a new aesthetic, one of austerity. "

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" My iPhone has always been my sketchbook. "

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