My mother was German, and I was brought up with 'Struwwelpeter' stories, which are invested with all sorts of horrors waiting for… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
I was my father's sidekick, in a way. He was a very dominant, forceful character. — 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
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
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
My father wanted a boy badly and didn't get one, so I was happy to be the surrogate boy. I was very… — Cornelia Parker 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
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
