I want to make work that reflects different times and processes. — Cornelia Parker Different times Copy Share Image
I need eight hours of sleep, but I never get it except at weekends. — Cornelia Parker Eight 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
I think I was a late developer because I'd been stuck in the country and was a little bit shy and withdrawn. — Cornelia Parker Country Copy Share Image
I definitely didn't want children, because my childhood was not a very happy time. — Cornelia Parker Childhood 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 Different Copy Share Image
I am 5ft 10in. I got my height from my dad, who was very rangy. I like being tall. — Cornelia Parker Being 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 Always Copy Share Image
I can consciously say I like squashing things because I saw 'Tom and Jerry' films or Charlie Chaplin in 'Modern Times.' That's… — Cornelia Parker Charlie chaplin Copy Share Image
I have always had a bob haircut because my hair is so fine and doesn't like being long. — Cornelia Parker Always Copy Share Image
When people asked to buy my work I always said no. I'd had this rather rarefied idea that I didn't want money… — Cornelia Parker Bits Copy Share Image
Artists and scientists are very close. They always have been, but I think we've just been divided out over the last few… — Cornelia Parker Always 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 Art 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 Hidden 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 Ideas 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 Art Copy Share Image
There's only a certain amount of works you can make, so you have to make only the ones you really want to… — Cornelia Parker Amount Copy Share Image
Once I started reinventing for myself what being an artist was - not going into a studio, but making things on my… — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
I'd love to do something like put a piece of moon rock on Mars and a piece of Mars on the moon,… — Cornelia Parker Archaeology Copy Share Image
Cry down materialism all you will, surely one of the thoroughly satisfactory sensations of this world is to feel financially independent. — Cornelia Parker Cry Copy Share Image
I try to avoid the 'art world' as much as possible. It's too much about fads and fashions - who's getting the… — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
I didn't make any money out of my art until I was in my 40s, but it preserved my sanity and my… — Cornelia Parker Art 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
The idea of going off to an office every day and 'putting on my art hat' doesn't appeal. — Cornelia Parker Appeal Copy Share Image
If I was prime minister, I would declare a state of emergency on climate change. — Cornelia Parker Change 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 Art Copy Share Image
My father was a very controlling man, and it was a big relief to get away from that. — Cornelia Parker Big Copy Share Image
I don't want it all to be pretty - it's a combination of loss and gain. Things are born, live and hang… — Cornelia Parker Beauty 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 was my father's sidekick, in a way. He was a very dominant, forceful character. — Cornelia Parker Character 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 I am 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
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
You only get one life, so it seems to me you might as well do the things you want to do. — Cornelia Parker Life Copy Share Image
I think I'm a feminist, hopefully by example. I just feel it's important to do as much as I can as a… — Cornelia Parker Ability Copy Share Image
I had two great art teachers at school, but even they tried to tell me it was too hard a world. But… — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
I always feel my work is a chemical reaction between me and the world, wherever I happen to be. — Cornelia Parker Always 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
