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" I think I was a late developer because I'd been stuck in the country and was a little bit shy and withdrawn.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

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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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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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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" Beauty is too easy. Often in my work, I take beautiful objects and do extreme things to them so that they are overlaid with something a bit more sinister and violent. "

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

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

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" Design impacts me in everything I do. Because, as I say, everything I own is designed. So the building I live in, the objects I choose to boil water in for example, even drinking vessels. "

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" I don't mind getting older; I just don't want to be in pain. "

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

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

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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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" I need eight hours of sleep, but I never get it except at weekends. "

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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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" My father was a very controlling man, and it was a big relief to get away from that. "

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" I don't drive for pleasure. It's purely to get from A to B. "

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

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

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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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" 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. "

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