New York, forever the port of em- and de-barkation en route to Adventure. — Cornelia Parker Adventure 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
I have never fitted neatly into the arts section, I don't think. — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
You make an open-ended proposition and the audience completes it somehow. That’s what you hope an artwork to be-a constantly living thing. — Cornelia Parker Artist 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
At times, I've been incapacitated by anxiety and unhappiness. You really know what joy is if you have experienced the opposite. — Cornelia Parker Anxiety Copy Share Image
I never got to play as a child. All my spare time was spent working on my family's smallholding. — Cornelia Parker Children 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Art historical reference is like learning to drive a car - you always know how to drive even though you're not analysing… — Cornelia Parker Always Copy Share Image
I feel our relationship to life, to the rest of the world, is very tenuous. It feels fleeting. — Cornelia Parker Feel Copy Share Image
If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill. It niggles when things… — Cornelia Parker Allergic Copy Share Image
Artists and scientists both think outside the box. They've got to come with genius experiments or ideas to expose the most interesting… — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
There's only a couple of coffee cups I'll use, because I like the way they feel in my hand. I realise I've… — Cornelia Parker Coffee Copy Share Image
I take things that are worn out through overuse, that have become cliches - like the shed, a traditional place of rest… — Cornelia Parker Future Copy Share Image
At my degree show, someone said, 'It's nice, but it's very feminine.' I said, thank you, taking it as a compliment, but… — Cornelia Parker Compliment 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 Armageddon 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
I think design means, for me, almost when man, back in time, decided to do something conscious. You know... to shape something… — Cornelia Parker Design Copy Share Image
Even though people think I am more of a conceptual artist, I am actually very intuitive. For me, it is still a… — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
Design impacts me in everything I do. Because, as I say, everything I own is designed. So the building I live in,… — Cornelia Parker Building Copy Share Image
I started doing sculpture rather than painting. I was halfway through my degree, and I hadn't really done any introduction courses in… — Cornelia Parker Done 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 Design Copy Share Image
I do 10 minutes of Pilates every morning if I'm in the mood. — Cornelia Parker Every Copy Share Image
I don't mind getting older; I just don't want to be in pain. — Cornelia Parker Getting older Copy Share Image
I'm trying not to go through that midlife dip that artists tend to have. — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
Living in a warehouse is great - but after a while, you just want a garden. — Cornelia Parker Garden Copy Share Image
I think your subconscious knows far more than your conscious, so I trust it. — Cornelia Parker Far Copy Share Image
I'm not very party-political, really; I am more strategic than that. — Cornelia Parker Am 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
