As you get older, things don't work as well. I do Pilates, and that helps. — Cornelia Parker 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
If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill. — 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
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
Some people separate their work and home lives, but I love the idea of having my studio and house in the same… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
I always feel my work is a chemical reaction between me and the world, wherever I happen to be. — 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… — 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
My work has threads of ideas from all over the place. I try to crystallise them in something simple and direct that… — 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
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 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 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
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
Maybe it's my Catholic upbringing - I grew up thinking that Armageddon was just around the corner - now I know it… — 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;… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
Being a sculptor who uses found objects, all the objects I use in my work have been designed by other people. So… — 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… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
Beauty is too easy. Often in my work, I take beautiful objects and do extreme things to them so that they are… — 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
