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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. "

Cornelia Parker

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

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

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

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" Artists and scientists are very close. They always have been, but I think we've just been divided out over the last few centuries into specialisms. Leonardo da Vinci was drawing helicopters and all kinds of things. We're artificially divided. I think we're closer than we think we are. "

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" I think I was a late developer because I'd been stuck in the country and was a little bit shy and withdrawn.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

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" I don't particularly look at other artists when I'm working. But references do come into my work intuitively. "

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" I'm not very party-political, really; I am more strategic than that. "

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" My father wanted a boy badly and didn't get one, so I was happy to be the surrogate boy. I was very strong, always doing manual labour. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" If you cut art from school, you're going to have a lot more looted shops. "

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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 like drawing from all kinds of territories in art. "

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

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

" 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. "

Cornelia Parker

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

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" I went to a quite macho art school in the 1970s, and while everyone was making hulking big sculptures, I was making things out of bits of paper. "

Cornelia Parker

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

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" As a working-class girl, receiving free school dinners, I studied art history. Having never had the chance to visit art galleries, I devoured the knowledge, and it has served me well as a practising artist. "

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