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" Violence is part of everybody's life, whether you like or express it or not. My work utilises all the energies that I have, and part of it is violent, and I'd rather it be out than in. "

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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. "

Cornelia Parker

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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. "

" 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. "

Cornelia Parker

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

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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. "

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

" That's the problem with working and living in the same space - my studio is downstairs, so I often get distracted by domestic things. "

" 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. "

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

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

Cornelia Parker

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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

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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. "

Cornelia Parker

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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? "

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

" 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. "

" I always love the court fool in Shakespearean times, in Henry VIII's time. The fool can say all kinds of stuff that the other people can't say, so I'm hoping I might take that role. "

" 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. "

Cornelia Parker

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Art

" The best ideas come out of getting lost. "

" If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill. "

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

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

" There's only a couple of coffee cups I'll use, because I like the way they feel in my hand. I realise I've got lots of others, but I won't use them because I just don't like... the thickness of the ceramic is too much, or the glaze isn't right. "

" I don't want my work to be issue-based. I want people to be able to read it in lots of different ways. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you conceal things, they become more charged. "

Cornelia Parker

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