I need eight hours of sleep, but I never get it except at weekends. — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
If you cut art from school, you're going to have a lot more looted shops. — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
not only have children most certainly a right to their own ambitions, but their own lack of ambitions. — Cornelia Parker Ambition Copy Share Image
Art and creativity are crucial, whether you're a mathematician, a scientist, or an artist. — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
I don't want to feel like an ambulance chaser, but very often, when I hear about a fire, my first instinct is… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
To make large, site-specific work as an artist is usually quite tortuous; there are so many boxes you have to tick. — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
If it is good enough for Prince William and Kate, why is studying art history not good enough for the masses? — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
Some people separate their work and home lives, but I love the idea of having my studio and house in the same… — Cornelia Parker Home Copy Share Image
There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing. — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
I always feel my work is a chemical reaction between me and the world, wherever I happen to be. — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
After leaving college, I was in a show called Sculpture by Women where I was asked to talk about my history of… — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
I was selling bric-a-brac in Portobello and Camden Market. I love objects. But I was embarrassed by the idea of collecting, so… — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
... rarely if ever does one feel sure one knows enough to go ahead with much of anything new. You bank on… — Cornelia Parker Ability Copy Share Image
When people listen to music, they don't worry about what it means like they do about art. Everyone's an expert on music,… — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
Beauty is too easy. Often in my work, I take beautiful objects and do extreme things to them so that they are… — Cornelia Parker Beautiful Copy Share Image
As a working-class girl, receiving free school dinners, I studied art history. Having never had the chance to visit art galleries, I… — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
Trout fishing is like any other sport. It is waste of words to try to give anyone who has never tried it… — Cornelia Parker Fish Copy Share Image
People often want the big dramatic works, not the smaller quieter ones, but I don't worry about how it fits together anymore;… — Cornelia Parker Dramatic Copy Share Image
Being a sculptor who uses found objects, all the objects I use in my work have been designed by other people. So… — Cornelia Parker Design Copy Share Image
I started doing sculpture rather than painting. I was halfway through my degree, and I hadn't really done any introduction courses in… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
I'm not very party-political, really; I am more strategic than that. — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
I'm trying not to go through that midlife dip that artists tend to have. — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
I don't mind getting older; I just don't want to be in pain. — Cornelia Parker Getting older Copy Share Image
Living in a warehouse is great - but after a while, you just want a garden. — Cornelia Parker Garden Copy Share Image
I think your subconscious knows far more than your conscious, so I trust it. — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
I have never fitted neatly into the arts section, I don't think. — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
