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" I'm not very party-political, really; I am more strategic than that. "

Cornelia Parker

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" 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. "

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" I am interested in the press and what they do. "

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

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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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" Dust, in the end, settles on everything. "

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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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" 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. "

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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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" 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

" 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. "

Cornelia Parker

" I do 10 minutes of Pilates every morning if I'm in the mood. "

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" I don't drive for pleasure. It's purely to get from A to B. "

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

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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 gave birth aged 45, which was a bit of a shock. "

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

Cornelia Parker

" 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

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

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" I don't want my work to be issue-based. I want people to be able to read it in lots of different ways. "

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

" Artists and scientists both think outside the box. They've got to come with genius experiments or ideas to expose the most interesting phenomena. "

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

Cornelia Parker

" I don't particularly look at other artists when I'm working. But references do come into my work intuitively. "

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

" 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

" Our cultural industries are our biggest export, our biggest manufacturing base. Every pound spent on art education brings disproportionately large returns. It's the biggest bang for our buck. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. In fact, the more you put in, the greater the successes for the U.K. economy. "

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