English - Artist | 1956 -
When people listen to music, they don't worry about what it means like they do about art. Everyone's an expert on music, but with art, I always find I have to defend its existence.
Cornelia Parker
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I'm not very party-political, really; I am more strategic than that.
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I am interested in the press and what they do.
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Traditional conceptual art is very dry.
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I like drawing from all kinds of territories in art.
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Even though people think I am more of a conceptual artist, I am actually very intuitive. For me, it is still a matter of allowing things to naturally rise to the top of my mental pile, and then I make them.
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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.
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After leaving college, I was in a show called Sculpture by Women where I was asked to talk about my history of victimisation in art, and I genuinely didn't think I had been victimised. Although I obviously believe in a lot of the feminist aspirations, I was wary about being dragged down by the politics of it.
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I think I was a late developer because I'd been stuck in the country and was a little bit shy and withdrawn.
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I have never fitted neatly into the arts section, I don't think.
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I was my father's sidekick, in a way. He was a very dominant, forceful character.
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You only get one life, so it seems to me you might as well do the things you want to do.
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