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

Cornelia Parker

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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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" People often want the big dramatic works, not the smaller quieter ones, but I don't worry about how it fits together anymore; I just have to do it. I feel compelled to make a work: it's like an itch I have to scratch, and once it's been scratched, it goes away. "

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

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

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

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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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" 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 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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" I want to make work that reflects different times and processes. "

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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. "

Cornelia Parker

" 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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" 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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" I'm trying not to go through that midlife dip that artists tend to have. "

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

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" I do 10 minutes of Pilates every morning if I'm in the mood. "

Cornelia Parker

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

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" Dust, in the end, settles on everything. "

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

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" If you cut art from school, you're going to have a lot more looted shops. "

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" Maybe it's my Catholic upbringing - I grew up thinking that Armageddon was just around the corner - now I know it is, with global warming and all. I can keep it at bay by doing the work. It's a sort of reverse sympathetic magic. I'm always doing it so it doesn't happen to me. "

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" I went to a quite macho art school in the 1970s, and while everyone was making hulking big sculptures, I was making things out of bits of paper. "

Cornelia Parker

" I can consciously say I like squashing things because I saw 'Tom and Jerry' films or Charlie Chaplin in 'Modern Times.' That's true. "

Cornelia Parker

" A lot of my work has been about stuff I've been frightened of: cliffs, explosions, meteorites, that kind of stuff. I would have been this trembling blob of fear if I hadn't got into making art, which is a good way of deferring it. "

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

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