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 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 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 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
If you cut art from school, you're going to have a lot more looted shops. — 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
Art and creativity are crucial, whether you're a mathematician, a scientist, or an artist. — Cornelia Parker 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 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 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 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 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
What was the most important thing I learned from Chomsky? That capitalism compels us to work ourselves to death in order to… — 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
Once I started reinventing for myself what being an artist was - not going into a studio, but making things on my… — 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
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 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; I just… — 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 Copy Share Image
As you get older, things don't work as well. I do Pilates, and that helps. — 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 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 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 have, and… — Cornelia Parker 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
After leaving college, I was in a show called Sculpture by Women where I was asked to talk about my history of victimisation in… — Cornelia Parker 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 reading 'Nineteen… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
I think your subconscious knows far more than your conscious, so I trust it. — Cornelia Parker 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
