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
At times, I've been incapacitated by anxiety and unhappiness. You really know what joy is if you have experienced the opposite. — Cornelia Parker Anxiety Copy Share Image
I never got to play as a child. All my spare time was spent working on my family's smallholding. — Cornelia Parker Children Copy Share Image
I'm from a working-class background - I had free school meals all my life and then spent six years in art school. — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
You make an open-ended proposition and the audience completes it somehow. That’s what you hope an artwork to be-a constantly living thing. — Cornelia Parker Artist Copy Share Image
If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill. It niggles when things… — Cornelia Parker 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
Artists and scientists are very close. They always have been, but I think we've just been divided out over the last few… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
I think it's quite obvious my work is made by a woman, because I have never wanted to make anything that is… — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
When people asked to buy my work I always said no. I'd had this rather rarefied idea that I didn't want money… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
I've done some collaborations which have ended up like Chinese whispers, but the most successful was with Tilda Swinton... Together we transcended… — Cornelia Parker Better together Copy Share Image
Driving a steamroller over an old trumpet or a teaspoon is no more destructive than taking a chisel to a lump of… — Cornelia Parker Artist Copy Share Image
My mother was German, and I was brought up with 'Struwwelpeter' stories, which are invested with all sorts of horrors waiting for… — Cornelia Parker Horrors Copy Share Image
Violence is part of everybody's life, whether you like or express it or not. My work utilises all the energies that I… — Cornelia Parker Crime Copy Share Image
I feel our relationship to life, to the rest of the world, is very tenuous. It feels fleeting. — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
Art historical reference is like learning to drive a car - you always know how to drive even though you're not analysing… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
Once I started reinventing for myself what being an artist was - not going into a studio, but making things on my… — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
My parents were always doubtful about my making a living as an artist. Even when I was up for the Turner Prize,… — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
A lot of my stuff just wasn't saleable. I still don't do private or corporate commissions. It becomes like interior design. I… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
Our cultural industries are our biggest export, our biggest manufacturing base. Every pound spent on art education brings disproportionately large returns. It's… — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
There's only a certain amount of works you can make, so you have to make only the ones you really want to… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
What was the most important thing I learned from Chomsky? That capitalism compels us to work ourselves to death in order to… — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
My work has threads of ideas from all over the place. I try to crystallise them in something simple and direct that… — Cornelia Parker Ideas Copy Share Image
My mother became mentally unwell with schizophrenia when I was in my teens... We couldn't watch television because she thought the people… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
There's only a couple of coffee cups I'll use, because I like the way they feel in my hand. I realise I've… — Cornelia Parker Coffee Copy Share Image
At my degree show, someone said, 'It's nice, but it's very feminine.' I said, thank you, taking it as a compliment, but… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
I take things that are worn out through overuse, that have become cliches - like the shed, a traditional place of rest… — Cornelia Parker Future Copy Share Image
Design impacts me in everything I do. Because, as I say, everything I own is designed. So the building I live in,… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
Even though people think I am more of a conceptual artist, I am actually very intuitive. For me, it is still a… — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
I think design means, for me, almost when man, back in time, decided to do something conscious. You know... to shape something… — Cornelia Parker Design Copy Share Image
There's something about being in the country that makes you stick out like a sore thumb ? you're an anomaly. But in… — Cornelia Parker Anomalies Copy Share Image
Maybe it's my Catholic upbringing - I grew up thinking that Armageddon was just around the corner - now I know it… — Cornelia Parker Armageddon Copy Share Image
