English - Artist | 1956 -
If people say, 'You can't do that,' you can be sure I will do my utmost to do it.
Cornelia Parker
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If you conceal things, they become more charged.
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A lot of my stuff just wasn't saleable. I still don't do private or corporate commissions. It becomes like interior design. I don't enjoy it. The process makes me feel physically sick.
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Driving a steamroller over an old trumpet or a teaspoon is no more destructive than taking a chisel to a lump of marble already torn from the landscape. But people don't see it that way because marble is considered noble.
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I gave birth aged 45, which was a bit of a shock.
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To make large, site-specific work as an artist is usually quite tortuous; there are so many boxes you have to tick.
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I had two great art teachers at school, but even they tried to tell me it was too hard a world. But that made being an artist even more attractive.
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When I was a kid, my mother used to say, 'You always want to be different.' I couldn't work out what she meant. I was just trying to be myself.
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Artists and scientists are very close. They always have been, but I think we've just been divided out over the last few centuries into specialisms. Leonardo da Vinci was drawing helicopters and all kinds of things. We're artificially divided. I think we're closer than we think we are.
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Violence is part of everybody's life, whether you like or express it or not. My work utilises all the energies that I have, and part of it is violent, and I'd rather it be out than in.
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If you cut art from school, you're going to have a lot more looted shops.
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I never got to play as a child. All my spare time was spent working on my family's smallholding.
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