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" Product design is fed by the avant-garde. "

Cornelia Parker

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" My mother became mentally unwell with schizophrenia when I was in my teens... We couldn't watch television because she thought the people on TV were sending her messages. She thought there were hidden cameras everywhere, so we had to have the curtains drawn. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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" My father wanted a boy badly and didn't get one, so I was happy to be the surrogate boy. I was very strong, always doing manual labour. "

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" Who thought it would be a good idea to undermine art in the school curriculum? Who thought studying the history of our visual culture was a waste of time? Who thought that only private schools should have that privilege? Was it someone who said we don't need experts? "

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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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" You only get one life, so it seems to me you might as well do the things you want to 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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" 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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" My iPhone has always been my sketchbook. "

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

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

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" Design impacts me in everything I do. Because, as I say, everything I own is designed. So the building I live in, the objects I choose to boil water in for example, even drinking vessels. "

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

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

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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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" Even though people think I am more of a conceptual artist, I am actually very intuitive. For me, it is still a matter of allowing things to naturally rise to the top of my mental pile, and then I make them. "

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" My father was a very controlling man, and it was a big relief to get away from that. "

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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. "

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