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" If I was prime minister, I would declare a state of emergency on climate change. "
Cornelia Parker
Would
Emergency
Climate Change
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" I do 10 minutes of Pilates every morning if I'm in the mood. "
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Pilates
Morning
" That's the problem with working and living in the same space - my studio is downstairs, so I often get distracted by domestic things. "
Cornelia Parker
Working
Problem
Living
" 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. "
Cornelia Parker
Sculpture
Painting
Know
" 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. "
Cornelia Parker
Dimension
I Am
Open
" 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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More
Become
Future
" 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
Your
Artist
" 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. "
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Too Much
Art
Best
" 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. "
Cornelia Parker
Knowledge
History
School
" 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. "
Cornelia Parker
Nice
Compliment
Said
" I don't particularly look at other artists when I'm working. But references do come into my work intuitively. "
Cornelia Parker
Look
Come
Other
" If you conceal things, they become more charged. "
Cornelia Parker
Things
More
You
" 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. "
Cornelia Parker
Looking
View
Glass
" Driving a steamroller over an old trumpet or a teaspoon is no more destructive than taking a chisel to a lump of marble already torn from the landscape. But people don't see it that way because marble is considered noble. "
Cornelia Parker
See
People
Landscape
" My mother was German, and I was brought up with 'Struwwelpeter' stories, which are invested with all sorts of horrors waiting for you if you do the wrong thing. "
Cornelia Parker
You
Wrong
Waiting
" My father was a very controlling man, and it was a big relief to get away from that. "
Cornelia Parker
Away
Father
Get
" 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. "
Cornelia Parker
Feel
Coffee
Way
" I didn't make any money out of my art until I was in my 40s, but it preserved my sanity and my freedom. "
Cornelia Parker
Sanity
Until
Art
" I'm not very party-political, really; I am more strategic than that. "
Cornelia Parker
More
Really
Strategic
" Artists and scientists both think outside the box. They've got to come with genius experiments or ideas to expose the most interesting phenomena. "
Cornelia Parker
Think
Genius
Ideas
" 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
Always
Fool
" I always feel my work is a chemical reaction between me and the world, wherever I happen to be. "
Cornelia Parker
Reaction
Always
Me
" 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. "
Cornelia Parker
Beauty
Work
More
" I had two great art teachers at school, but even they tried to tell me it was too hard a world. But that made being an artist even more attractive. "
Cornelia Parker
Me
School
Art
" 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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Art
History
Women
" If it is good enough for Prince William and Kate, why is studying art history not good enough for the masses? "
Cornelia Parker
Good
Why
Art
" 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. "
Cornelia Parker
Serious
Doing
Car
" 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. "
Cornelia Parker
Up
Child
Mud
" Product design is fed by the avant-garde. "
Cornelia Parker
Design
Avant-Garde
Fed
" 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
Out
School
Art
" I'm trying not to go through that midlife dip that artists tend to have. "
Cornelia Parker
Tend
Dip
Artists