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

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

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" If I was prime minister, I would declare a state of emergency on climate change. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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 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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" 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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" Traditional conceptual art is very dry. "

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" I am not a propagandist; my work has often had a political dimension but, hopefully, one that is not didactic and is open to interpretation. "

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

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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? "

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

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

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

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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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