Doing The Work Quotes by Cornelia Parker

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

I like the idea of taking three-dimensional objects and making them two-dimensional so that they look like cartoons.

— Cornelia Parker

As you get older, things don't work as well. I do Pilates, and that helps.

— Cornelia Parker

The main trouble with this civilized world isn't that we adventure too much, but that we fail to adventure enough.

— Cornelia Parker

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

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

Dust, in the end, settles on everything.

— Cornelia Parker

If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill.

— Cornelia Parker

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

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

I think your subconscious knows far more than your conscious, so I trust it.

— Cornelia Parker

Paul Auster is my favourite writer, and I'm sure he'd be a very interesting person to share a journey with.

— Cornelia Parker