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" I'd love to do something like put a piece of moon rock on Mars and a piece of Mars on the moon, a sort of reverse archaeology. "
Cornelia Parker
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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.' "
Cornelia Parker
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" My parents were always doubtful about my making a living as an artist. Even when I was up for the Turner Prize, my mum suggested I apply for a curator's job. "
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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 was selling bric-a-brac in Portobello and Camden Market. I love objects. But I was embarrassed by the idea of collecting, so I began using these things in my art. "
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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. "
Cornelia Parker
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She
" 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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History
Women
" Product design is fed by the avant-garde. "
Cornelia Parker
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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
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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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Water
" I am interested in the press and what they do. "
Cornelia Parker
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" If you conceal things, they become more charged. "
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Things
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You
" Some people separate their work and home lives, but I love the idea of having my studio and house in the same space. "
Cornelia Parker
Work
Space
Home
" I like the idea of taking three-dimensional objects and making them two-dimensional so that they look like cartoons. "
Cornelia Parker
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" I didn't make any money out of my art until I was in my 40s, but it preserved my sanity and my freedom. "
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" I like drawing from all kinds of territories in art. "
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" I'm not very party-political, really; I am more strategic than that. "
Cornelia Parker
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" I think I'm a feminist, hopefully by example. I just feel it's important to do as much as I can as a woman, to the best of my ability. "
Cornelia Parker
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" Dust, in the end, settles on everything. "
Cornelia Parker
Dust
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" I always love the court fool in Shakespearean times, in Henry VIII's time. The fool can say all kinds of stuff that the other people can't say, so I'm hoping I might take that role. "
Cornelia Parker
Time
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" Art and creativity are crucial, whether you're a mathematician, a scientist, or an artist. "
Cornelia Parker
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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 have never fitted neatly into the arts section, I don't think. "
Cornelia Parker
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" Living in a warehouse is great - but after a while, you just want a garden. "
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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 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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" If it is good enough for Prince William and Kate, why is studying art history not good enough for the masses? "
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" I think your subconscious knows far more than your conscious, so I trust it. "
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