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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. "

Cornelia Parker

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

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" Art historical reference is like learning to drive a car - you always know how to drive even though you're not analysing how.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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" Dust, in the end, settles on everything. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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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'd love to do something like put a piece of moon rock on Mars and a piece of Mars on the moon, a sort of reverse archaeology. "

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" 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. "

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

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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 don't skip meals, because I get blood sugary. "

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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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" 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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" The best ideas come out of getting lost. "

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

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

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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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" Being a sculptor who uses found objects, all the objects I use in my work have been designed by other people. So I'm tweaking them in some way by squashing them or throwing them off cliffs! Then I formalise my damage by suspending them or arranging them in some kind of way. So I'm using other people's design in a way, so I'm an 'un-maker.' "

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

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" I think I was a late developer because I'd been stuck in the country and was a little bit shy and withdrawn. "

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" To make large, site-specific work as an artist is usually quite tortuous; there are so many boxes you have to tick. "

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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 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. "

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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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