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Cornelia Parker Quotes

English - Artist | 1956 -

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

Cornelia Parker

Life Relationship World Rest Feel

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

Cornelia Parker

Change Climate Change Emergency Prime

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

Cornelia Parker

Work Doing Want Reaction Suffer Get

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

Cornelia Parker

Ideas Think Interesting Genius Box

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.

Cornelia Parker

Good Time Man Me Think Design

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.'

Cornelia Parker

Work People Design Kind Way Off

Design impacts me in everything I do. Because, as I say, everything I own is designed. So the building I live in, the objects I choose to boil water in for example, even drinking vessels.

Cornelia Parker

Live Water Me Building Design Say

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

Coffee Feel Too Much Hand Way Right

At my degree show, someone said, 'It's nice, but it's very feminine.' I said, thank you, taking it as a compliment, but they obviously meant it as an insult.

Cornelia Parker

Thank You Someone You Said Nice

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.

Cornelia Parker

Art School Everyone Out Things Big

I think it's quite obvious my work is made by a woman, because I have never wanted to make anything that is not ephemeral. But I definitely want to be thought of as an artist first.

Cornelia Parker

Work Woman Think Thought Artist

I take things that are worn out through overuse, that have become cliches - like the shed, a traditional place of rest and retreat - and I give them a more incandescent future.

Cornelia Parker

Future Rest Place Become More Out

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