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" I gave birth aged 45, which was a bit of a shock. "

Cornelia Parker

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" The idea of going off to an office every day and 'putting on my art hat' doesn't appeal. "

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

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

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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'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. "

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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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" 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. "

Cornelia Parker

" I want to make work that reflects different times and processes. "

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

" At times, I've been incapacitated by anxiety and unhappiness. You really know what joy is if you have experienced the opposite. "

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

" 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

" Product design is fed by the avant-garde. "

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

" Traditional conceptual art is very dry. "

Cornelia Parker

" I don't particularly look at other artists when I'm working. But references do come into my work intuitively. "

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

" 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.' "

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

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

" 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. "

Cornelia Parker

" 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. "

Cornelia Parker

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

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 have always had a bob haircut because my hair is so fine and doesn't like being long. "

Cornelia Parker