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

Cornelia Parker

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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" That's the problem with working and living in the same space - my studio is downstairs, so I often get distracted by domestic things. "

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" Our cultural industries are our biggest export, our biggest manufacturing base. Every pound spent on art education brings disproportionately large returns. It's the biggest bang for our buck. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. In fact, the more you put in, the greater the successes for the U.K. economy. "

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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 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. "

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

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

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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. "

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

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

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

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