English - Artist | 1956 -
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
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I don't read the art mags. I read the newspapers.
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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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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.
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I don't want my work to be issue-based. I want people to be able to read it in lots of different ways.
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My father was a very controlling man, and it was a big relief to get away from that.
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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.
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At times, I've been incapacitated by anxiety and unhappiness. You really know what joy is if you have experienced the opposite.
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Jeremy Corbyn makes me angry. He seems vain.
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I need eight hours of sleep, but I never get it except at weekends.
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I do 10 minutes of Pilates every morning if I'm in the mood.
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I don't skip meals, because I get blood sugary.
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