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 Dramatic 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 Cartoons Copy Share Image
As you get older, things don't work as well. I do Pilates, and that helps. — Cornelia Parker Get 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 Adventure 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
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
If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill. — Cornelia Parker Allergic 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 Art 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 Five years Copy Share Image
I think your subconscious knows far more than your conscious, so I trust it. — Cornelia Parker Far 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 He Copy Share Image
Heaven grants the human being who has learned to live alone a deep measure of such rewards that verily would one hesitate… — Cornelia Parker Certain Copy Share Image
I was very physical as a child - we lived on a smallholding, and I was always outside making mud pies or… — Cornelia Parker Always 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 Art 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 Mother Copy Share Image
I have never fitted neatly into the arts section, I don't think. — Cornelia Parker Art 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 1970s Copy Share Image
Trout fishing is like any other sport. It is waste of words to try to give anyone who has never tried it… — Cornelia Parker Fishing Copy Share Image
not only have children most certainly a right to their own ambitions, but their own lack of ambitions. — Cornelia Parker Ambition Copy Share Image
If people say, 'You can't do that,' you can be sure I will do my utmost to do it. — Cornelia Parker People Copy Share Image
That's the problem with working and living in the same space - my studio is downstairs, so I often get distracted by… — Cornelia Parker Living 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
If you cut art from school, you're going to have a lot more looted shops. — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
