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" The best ideas come out of getting lost. "

Cornelia Parker

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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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" 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 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 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 feel our relationship to life, to the rest of the world, is very tenuous. It feels fleeting. "

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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. "

Cornelia Parker

" Art historical reference is like learning to drive a car - you always know how to drive even though you're not analysing how.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

" 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 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. "

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

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