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" Jeremy Corbyn makes me angry. He seems vain. "

Cornelia Parker

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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 do think there is a link between the accidental art the sciences produce and the deliberate art the artist creates, but I can't help feeling that the innocence of the accidental art of science has a power and curious beauty that artists are hard-pressed to match. "

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

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

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" That's the problem with working and living in the same space - my studio is downstairs, so I often get distracted by domestic things. "

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" 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. "

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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 work has threads of ideas from all over the place. I try to crystallise them in something simple and direct that the viewer can then take where they want. "

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

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

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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 like drawing from all kinds of territories in art. "

Cornelia Parker

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

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

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

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

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

" Violence is part of everybody's life, whether you like or express it or not. My work utilises all the energies that I have, and part of it is violent, and I'd rather it be out than in. "

Cornelia Parker

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

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" A lot of my stuff just wasn't saleable. I still don't do private or corporate commissions. It becomes like interior design. I don't enjoy it. The process makes me feel physically sick. "

Cornelia Parker

" I'm trying not to go through that midlife dip that artists tend to have. "

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

" People often want the big dramatic works, not the smaller quieter ones, but I don't worry about how it fits together anymore; I just have to do it. I feel compelled to make a work: it's like an itch I have to scratch, and once it's been scratched, it goes away. "

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

" 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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" If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill. "

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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

" 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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