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" I think your subconscious knows far more than your conscious, so I trust it. "
Cornelia Parker
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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'm not very party-political, really; I am more strategic than that. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I like drawing from all kinds of territories in art. "
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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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" Traditional conceptual art is very dry. "
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" I don't mind getting older; I just don't want to be in pain. "
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" I don't drive for pleasure. It's purely to get from A to B. "
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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 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. "
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" 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.' "
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" Dust, in the end, settles on everything. "
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Everything
In The End
" I definitely didn't want children, because my childhood was not a very happy time. "
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Childhood
Time
" I am not a propagandist; my work has often had a political dimension but, hopefully, one that is not didactic and is open to interpretation. "
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I Am
Open
" You don't have to have angst to be an artist, but it's grist to the mill. If you want to explore the whole emotional spectrum in your work, it helps to have experienced intense emotions. "
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You
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" I can consciously say I like squashing things because I saw 'Tom and Jerry' films or Charlie Chaplin in 'Modern Times.' That's true. "
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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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" My iPhone has always been my sketchbook. "
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iPhone
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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 read the art mags. I read the newspapers. "
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" I feel our relationship to life, to the rest of the world, is very tenuous. It feels fleeting. "
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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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Never
Family
" 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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" 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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" 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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Space
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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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He
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