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" 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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" 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

Always

Artist

" I'm from a working-class background - I had free school meals all my life and then spent six years in art school. "

" 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. "

" I definitely didn't want children, because my childhood was not a very happy time. "

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

Cornelia Parker

Really

Strategic

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

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

" 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. "

" I was selling bric-a-brac in Portobello and Camden Market. I love objects. But I was embarrassed by the idea of collecting, so I began using these things in my art. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Some people separate their work and home lives, but I love the idea of having my studio and house in the same space. "

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

" 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. "

Cornelia Parker

Become

Future

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

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

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

Cornelia Parker

Art

Drawing

" 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. "

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

" 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

Child

Mud

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

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

" If it is good enough for Prince William and Kate, why is studying art history not good enough for the masses? "

" The best ideas come out of getting lost. "

" 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

School

Art

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

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