New York, forever the port of em- and de-barkation en route to Adventure. — Cornelia Parker Adventure Copy Share Image
As you get older, things don't work as well. I do Pilates, and that helps. — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
I had two great art teachers at school, but even they tried to tell me it was too hard a world. But… — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
I was very physical as a child - we lived on a smallholding, and I was always outside making mud pies or… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
I like the idea of taking three-dimensional objects and making them two-dimensional so that they look like cartoons. — Cornelia Parker Cartoons Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, my mother used to say, 'You always want to be different.' I couldn't work out what she… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
I went to a quite macho art school in the 1970s, and while everyone was making hulking big sculptures, I was making… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
You only get one life, so it seems to me you might as well do the things you want to do. — Cornelia Parker Life Copy Share Image
I think I'm a feminist, hopefully by example. I just feel it's important to do as much as I can as a… — Cornelia Parker Ability Copy Share Image
If I was prime minister, I would declare a state of emergency on climate change. — Cornelia Parker Change Copy Share Image
I do think there is a link between the accidental art the sciences produce and the deliberate art the artist creates, but… — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
A lot of my work has been about stuff I've been frightened of: cliffs, explosions, meteorites, that kind of stuff. I would… — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
I didn't really know what I was looking at when I first came across Man Ray's 'Dust Breeding,' his photograph of a… — Cornelia Parker Artist Copy Share Image
Who thought it would be a good idea to undermine art in the school curriculum? Who thought studying the history of our… — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
You don't have to have angst to be an artist, but it's grist to the mill. If you want to explore the… — Cornelia Parker Angst Copy Share Image
I think my work is like a spiral: you keep coming back on yourself, but you're at a different place. It's like… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
I always love the court fool in Shakespearean times, in Henry VIII's time. The fool can say all kinds of stuff that… — Cornelia Parker Court Copy Share Image
I was involved in a serious accident driving in torrential rain at midnight in Cardiff. I was only doing five miles an… — Cornelia Parker Accident Copy Share Image
I don't particularly look at other artists when I'm working. But references do come into my work intuitively. — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
Paul Auster is my favourite writer, and I'm sure he'd be a very interesting person to share a journey with. — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
The idea of going off to an office every day and 'putting on my art hat' doesn't appeal. — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
The main trouble with this civilized world isn't that we adventure too much, but that we fail to adventure enough. — Cornelia Parker Adventure Copy Share Image
I am not a propagandist; my work has often had a political dimension but, hopefully, one that is not didactic and is… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
I was my father's sidekick, in a way. He was a very dominant, forceful character. — Cornelia Parker Character Copy Share Image
If people say, 'You can't do that,' you can be sure I will do my utmost to do it. — Cornelia Parker People Copy Share Image
That's the problem with working and living in the same space - my studio is downstairs, so I often get distracted by… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
My father was a very controlling man, and it was a big relief to get away from that. — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
I don't want it all to be pretty - it's a combination of loss and gain. Things are born, live and hang… — Cornelia Parker Beauty Copy Share Image
I have always had a bob haircut because my hair is so fine and doesn't like being long. — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
Cry down materialism all you will, surely one of the thoroughly satisfactory sensations of this world is to feel financially independent. — Cornelia Parker Cry Copy Share Image
I'd love to do something like put a piece of moon rock on Mars and a piece of Mars on the moon,… — Cornelia Parker Archaeology Copy Share Image
I try to avoid the 'art world' as much as possible. It's too much about fads and fashions - who's getting the… — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
I didn't make any money out of my art until I was in my 40s, but it preserved my sanity and my… — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
I think I was a late developer because I'd been stuck in the country and was a little bit shy and withdrawn. — Cornelia Parker Country Copy Share Image
I don't want my work to be issue-based. I want people to be able to read it in lots of different ways. — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
I definitely didn't want children, because my childhood was not a very happy time. — Cornelia Parker Childhood Copy Share Image
Artists and scientists both think outside the box. They've got to come with genius experiments or ideas to expose the most interesting… — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill. — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
