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" 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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" I was involved in a serious accident driving in torrential rain at midnight in Cardiff. I was only doing five miles an hour, but because I couldn't see very well, I crossed a junction and collided with another car that was driving very fast. I ended up in hospital for six weeks with a shattered pelvis. "

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

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

" Artists and scientists both think outside the box. They've got to come with genius experiments or ideas to expose the most interesting phenomena. "

" I always feel my work is a chemical reaction between me and the world, wherever I happen to be. "

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Reaction

Always

" 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. "

" To make large, site-specific work as an artist is usually quite tortuous; there are so many boxes you have to tick. "

" I'd love to do something like put a piece of moon rock on Mars and a piece of Mars on the moon, a sort of reverse archaeology. "

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Mars

Something

" Beauty is too easy. Often in my work, I take beautiful objects and do extreme things to them so that they are overlaid with something a bit more sinister and violent. "

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Beauty

Work

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" If it is good enough for Prince William and Kate, why is studying art history not good enough for the masses? "

" 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.' "

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

" I think design means, for me, almost when man, back in time, decided to do something conscious. You know... to shape something and make something different from just using things that were lying around. So whoever designed the wheel were onto a good thing. "

" I think I'm a feminist, hopefully by example. I just feel it's important to do as much as I can as a woman, to the best of my ability. "

" 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. "

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

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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. "

Cornelia Parker

School

Art

" What was the most important thing I learned from Chomsky? That capitalism compels us to work ourselves to death in order to stuff our houses with things we don't need. Perhaps this is one thing art can do: create a new aesthetic, one of austerity. "

" 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. "

" I think I was a late developer because I'd been stuck in the country and was a little bit shy and withdrawn. "

" My mother became mentally unwell with schizophrenia when I was in my teens... We couldn't watch television because she thought the people on TV were sending her messages. She thought there were hidden cameras everywhere, so we had to have the curtains drawn. "