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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. "

Cornelia Parker

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

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" Who thought it would be a good idea to undermine art in the school curriculum? Who thought studying the history of our visual culture was a waste of time? Who thought that only private schools should have that privilege? Was it someone who said we don't need experts? "

Cornelia Parker

" 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. "

Cornelia Parker

" 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. "

Cornelia Parker

" 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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" Design impacts me in everything I do. Because, as I say, everything I own is designed. So the building I live in, the objects I choose to boil water in for example, even drinking vessels. "

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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. "

Cornelia Parker

" 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. "

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

" I think I'm a feminist, hopefully by example. I just feel it's important to do as much as I can as a woman, to the best of my ability. "

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

" 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. "

Cornelia Parker

" If I was prime minister, I would declare a state of emergency on climate change. "

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

" 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. "

Cornelia Parker

" I do 10 minutes of Pilates every morning if I'm in the mood. "

Cornelia Parker

" I'm trying not to go through that midlife dip that artists tend to have. "

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

" 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. "

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

" I try to avoid the 'art world' as much as possible. It's too much about fads and fashions - who's getting the best prices at auction and things like that. "

Cornelia Parker

" 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. "

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker