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" I like the idea of taking three-dimensional objects and making them two-dimensional so that they look like cartoons. "
Cornelia Parker
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" I didn't really know what I was looking at when I first came across Man Ray's 'Dust Breeding,' his photograph of a work by Marcel Duchamp called 'Large Glass.' It looked like an aerial photograph or a view through a microscope. "
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" I don't skip meals, because I get blood sugary. "
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" I started doing sculpture rather than painting. I was halfway through my degree, and I hadn't really done any introduction courses in sculpture... I'd missed all the technical stuff. I didn't really know how to weld or forge or carve or model. I'd sort of evaded all those technique classes, so I had no technique. "
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" After leaving college, I was in a show called Sculpture by Women where I was asked to talk about my history of victimisation in art, and I genuinely didn't think I had been victimised. Although I obviously believe in a lot of the feminist aspirations, I was wary about being dragged down by the politics of it. "
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" 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. "
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" I have never fitted neatly into the arts section, I don't think. "
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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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" 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 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. "
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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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" 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 do think there is a link between the accidental art the sciences produce and the deliberate art the artist creates, but I can't help feeling that the innocence of the accidental art of science has a power and curious beauty that artists are hard-pressed to match. "
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" Art and creativity are crucial, whether you're a mathematician, a scientist, or an artist. "
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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 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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" 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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" If it is good enough for Prince William and Kate, why is studying art history not good enough for the masses? "
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" I need eight hours of sleep, but I never get it except at weekends. "
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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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" I want to make work that reflects different times and processes. "
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" I think your subconscious knows far more than your conscious, so I trust it. "
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" I am interested in the press and what they do. "
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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? "
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" Traditional conceptual art is very dry. "
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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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" The idea of going off to an office every day and 'putting on my art hat' doesn't appeal. "
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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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" I gave birth aged 45, which was a bit of a shock. "
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" I'm trying not to go through that midlife dip that artists tend to have. "
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