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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? "

Cornelia Parker

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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. "

Cornelia Parker

" A lot of my work has been about stuff I've been frightened of: cliffs, explosions, meteorites, that kind of stuff. I would have been this trembling blob of fear if I hadn't got into making art, which is a good way of deferring it. "

Cornelia Parker

" 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

" I like the idea of taking three-dimensional objects and making them two-dimensional so that they look like cartoons. "

Cornelia Parker

" 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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" I feel our relationship to life, to the rest of the world, is very tenuous. It feels fleeting. "

Cornelia Parker

" I don't mind getting older; I just don't want to be in pain. "

Cornelia Parker

" 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. "

Cornelia Parker

" 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. "

Cornelia Parker

" 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

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

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

" To make large, site-specific work as an artist is usually quite tortuous; there are so many boxes you have to tick. "

Cornelia Parker

" I like drawing from all kinds of territories in art. "

Cornelia Parker

" 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

" Product design is fed by the avant-garde. "

Cornelia Parker

" I don't read the art mags. I read the newspapers. "

Cornelia Parker

" I always feel my work is a chemical reaction between me and the world, wherever I happen to be. "

Cornelia Parker

" 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

" 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

" Living in a warehouse is great - but after a while, you just want a garden. "

Cornelia Parker

" I don't want to feel like an ambulance chaser, but very often, when I hear about a fire, my first instinct is to make a piece of art out of it. "

Cornelia Parker

" Art historical reference is like learning to drive a car - you always know how to drive even though you're not analysing how. "

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

" 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

" My father was a very controlling man, and it was a big relief to get away from that. "

Cornelia Parker

" 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. "

Cornelia Parker

" I can consciously say I like squashing things because I saw 'Tom and Jerry' films or Charlie Chaplin in 'Modern Times.' That's true. "

Cornelia Parker

" 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

" 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. "

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