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" If people say, 'You can't do that,' you can be sure I will do my utmost to do it. "

Cornelia Parker

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" What was the most important thing I learned from Chomsky? That capitalism compels us to work ourselves to death in order to stuff our houses with things we don't need. Perhaps this is one thing art can do: create a new aesthetic, one of austerity. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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" I have always had a bob haircut because my hair is so fine and doesn't like being long. "

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

" 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 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

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

Cornelia Parker

" 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. "

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

" 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

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

Cornelia Parker

" 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

" 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

" I have never fitted neatly into the arts section, I don't think. "

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

" The best ideas come out of getting lost. "

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

" As you get older, things don't work as well. I do Pilates, and that helps. "

Cornelia Parker

" 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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