English - Artist | 1956 -
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.
Cornelia Parker
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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.
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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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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.
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Living in a warehouse is great - but after a while, you just want a garden.
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Product design is fed by the avant-garde.
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My iPhone has always been my sketchbook.
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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 have always had a bob haircut because my hair is so fine and doesn't like being long.
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I think your subconscious knows far more than your conscious, so I trust it.
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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.
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I always feel my work is a chemical reaction between me and the world, wherever I happen to be.
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