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

Cornelia Parker

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" 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. "

Cornelia Parker

" 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. "

Cornelia Parker

" As you get older, things don't work as well. I do Pilates, and that helps. "

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

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. "

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

" 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. "

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

" 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

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

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

" 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. "

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

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

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

" 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. "

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 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

" A lot of my work has been about stuff I've been frightened of: cliffs, explosions, meteorites, that kind of stuff. I would have been this trembling blob of fear if I hadn't got into making art, which is a good way of deferring it. "

Cornelia Parker

" My iPhone has always been my sketchbook. "

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

" 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

" 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

" 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