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

Cornelia Parker

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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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" Art historical reference is like learning to drive a car - you always know how to drive even though you're not analysing how. "

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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'm from a working-class background - I had free school meals all my life and then spent six years in art school. "

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

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

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

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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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" 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. "

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

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

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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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" 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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