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" I want to make work that reflects different times and processes. "

Cornelia Parker

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" 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. "

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" Maybe it's my Catholic upbringing - I grew up thinking that Armageddon was just around the corner - now I know it is, with global warming and all. I can keep it at bay by doing the work. It's a sort of reverse sympathetic magic. I'm always doing it so it doesn't happen to me. "

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

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

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" 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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" My iPhone has always been my sketchbook. "

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

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

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" You only get one life, so it seems to me you might as well do the things you want to do. "

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