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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

Time

Design

Good

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Cornelia Parker

Things

You

" There's only a couple of coffee cups I'll use, because I like the way they feel in my hand. I realise I've got lots of others, but I won't use them because I just don't like... the thickness of the ceramic is too much, or the glaze isn't right. "

" Even though people think I am more of a conceptual artist, I am actually very intuitive. For me, it is still a matter of allowing things to naturally rise to the top of my mental pile, and then I make them. "

Cornelia Parker

Artist

Think

" 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. "

" To make large, site-specific work as an artist is usually quite tortuous; there are so many boxes you have to tick. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I think I was a late developer because I'd been stuck in the country and was a little bit shy and withdrawn. "

" 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. "

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

" I like the idea of taking three-dimensional objects and making them two-dimensional so that they look like cartoons. "

Cornelia Parker

Idea

Look

" I think my work is like a spiral: you keep coming back on yourself, but you're at a different place. It's like reading 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' every five years. You realise that some things have caught up. "

" 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.' "

" I don't want my work to be issue-based. I want people to be able to read it in lots of different ways. "

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

Cornelia Parker

Way

Father

" I didn't make any money out of my art until I was in my 40s, but it preserved my sanity and my freedom. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

Cornelia Parker

Hair

Fine

" When people listen to music, they don't worry about what it means like they do about art. Everyone's an expert on music, but with art, I always find I have to defend its existence. "

" Traditional conceptual art is very dry. "

" I was very physical as a child - we lived on a smallholding, and I was always outside making mud pies or building structures up trees. "

Cornelia Parker

Child

Mud

" Artists and scientists both think outside the box. They've got to come with genius experiments or ideas to expose the most interesting phenomena. "

" A lot of my stuff just wasn't saleable. I still don't do private or corporate commissions. It becomes like interior design. I don't enjoy it. The process makes me feel physically sick. "

Cornelia Parker

Feel

Enjoy

" I can consciously say I like squashing things because I saw 'Tom and Jerry' films or Charlie Chaplin in 'Modern Times.' That's true. "

Cornelia Parker

True

Say

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

" 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. "

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