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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. "

Cornelia Parker

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" My work has threads of ideas from all over the place. I try to crystallise them in something simple and direct that the viewer can then take where they want. "

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" 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. "

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" If people say, 'You can't do that,' you can be sure I will do my utmost to do it. "

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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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" As you get older, things don't work as well. I do Pilates, and that helps. "

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" I like drawing from all kinds of territories in art. "

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

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

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" I am interested in the press and what they do. "

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

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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. "

Cornelia Parker

" 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

" 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

" 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. "

Cornelia Parker

" 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. "

Cornelia Parker

" I don't skip meals, because I get blood sugary. "

Cornelia Parker

" Paul Auster is my favourite writer, and I'm sure he'd be a very interesting person to share a journey with. "

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

" I think my work is like a spiral: you keep coming back on yourself, but you're at a different place. It's like reading 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' every five years. You realise that some things have caught up. "

Cornelia Parker

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

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" The best ideas come out of getting lost. "

Cornelia Parker

" At times, I've been incapacitated by anxiety and unhappiness. You really know what joy is if you have experienced the opposite. "

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

" As a working-class girl, receiving free school dinners, I studied art history. Having never had the chance to visit art galleries, I devoured the knowledge, and it has served me well as a practising artist. "

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. "

Cornelia Parker

" 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

" Driving a steamroller over an old trumpet or a teaspoon is no more destructive than taking a chisel to a lump of marble already torn from the landscape. But people don't see it that way because marble is considered noble. "

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

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

Cornelia Parker

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

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