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

Cornelia Parker

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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 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 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. "

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" 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. "

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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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" The idea of going off to an office every day and 'putting on my art hat' doesn't appeal. "

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

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" I want to make work that reflects different times and processes. "

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" Maybe it's my Catholic upbringing - I grew up thinking that Armageddon was just around the corner - now I know it is, with global warming and all. I can keep it at bay by doing the work. It's a sort of reverse sympathetic magic. I'm always doing it so it doesn't happen to me. "

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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 skip meals, because I get blood sugary. "

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" My iPhone has always been my sketchbook. "

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

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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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" I am 5ft 10in. I got my height from my dad, who was very rangy. I like being tall. "

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

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" Art historical reference is like learning to drive a car - you always know how to drive even though you're not analysing how.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

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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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" When people listen to music, they don't worry about what it means like they do about art. Everyone's an expert on music, but with art, I always find I have to defend its existence. "

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

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. "

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" The best ideas come out of getting lost. "

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" 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 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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" I never got to play as a child. All my spare time was spent working on my family's smallholding. "

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

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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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