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" Traditional conceptual art is very dry. "

Cornelia Parker

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" Artists and scientists are very close. They always have been, but I think we've just been divided out over the last few centuries into specialisms. Leonardo da Vinci was drawing helicopters and all kinds of things. We're artificially divided. I think we're closer than we think we are. "

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" 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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" 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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" You don't have to have angst to be an artist, but it's grist to the mill. If you want to explore the whole emotional spectrum in your work, it helps to have experienced intense emotions. "

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

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

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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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" 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 think your subconscious knows far more than your conscious, so I trust it. "

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

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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. "

Cornelia Parker

" 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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" 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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