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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. "

Cornelia Parker

Sculpture

Painting

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

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

" I am interested in the press and what they do. "

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" 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. "

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

" If you conceal things, they become more charged. "

Cornelia Parker

Things

You

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

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

Cornelia Parker

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" Paul Auster is my favourite writer, and I'm sure he'd be a very interesting person to share a journey with. "

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Interesting

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" The best ideas come out of getting lost. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If it is good enough for Prince William and Kate, why is studying art history not good enough for the masses? "

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

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

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

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

Cornelia Parker

Far

Trust

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

" 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? "

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

" 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

School

Art

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People often want the big dramatic works, not the smaller quieter ones, but I don't worry about how it fits together anymore; I just have to do it. I feel compelled to make a work: it's like an itch I have to scratch, and once it's been scratched, it goes away. "

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

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