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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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" My iPhone has always been my sketchbook. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Art historical reference is like learning to drive a car - you always know how to drive even though you're not analysing how. "

" I think I was a late developer because I'd been stuck in the country and was a little bit shy and withdrawn.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

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

" 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. "

" 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 was selling bric-a-brac in Portobello and Camden Market. I love objects. But I was embarrassed by the idea of collecting, so I began using these things in my art. "

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

Cornelia Parker

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

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

" I gave birth aged 45, which was a bit of a shock. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Cornelia Parker

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

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

Cornelia Parker

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You

" Traditional conceptual art is very dry. "

" I didn't make any money out of my art until I was in my 40s, but it preserved my sanity and my freedom. "

" I don't want to feel like an ambulance chaser, but very often, when I hear about a fire, my first instinct is to make a piece of art out of it. "

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