Some people separate their work and home lives, but I love the idea of having my studio and house in the same… — Cornelia Parker Home Copy Share Image
There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing. — Cornelia Parker Art 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 Different 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
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
Art and creativity are crucial, whether you're a mathematician, a scientist, or an artist. — Cornelia Parker Art 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 it is good enough for Prince William and Kate, why is studying art history not good enough for the masses? — 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
My mother was German, and I was brought up with 'Struwwelpeter' stories, which are invested with all sorts of horrors waiting for… — Cornelia Parker Horrors Copy Share Image
Our cultural industries are our biggest export, our biggest manufacturing base. Every pound spent on art education brings disproportionately large returns. It's… — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
A lot of my stuff just wasn't saleable. I still don't do private or corporate commissions. It becomes like interior design. I… — Cornelia Parker Becomes 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 Art Copy Share Image
Driving a steamroller over an old trumpet or a teaspoon is no more destructive than taking a chisel to a lump of… — Cornelia Parker Artist Copy Share Image
I've done some collaborations which have ended up like Chinese whispers, but the most successful was with Tilda Swinton... Together we transcended… — Cornelia Parker Better together 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 don't want to feel like an ambulance chaser, but very often, when I hear about a fire, my first instinct is… — Cornelia Parker Ambulance 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 Art Copy Share Image
I always love the court fool in Shakespearean times, in Henry VIII's time. The fool can say all kinds of stuff that… — Cornelia Parker Court 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 Angst Copy Share Image
I was involved in a serious accident driving in torrential rain at midnight in Cardiff. I was only doing five miles an… — Cornelia Parker Accident 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 do think there is a link between the accidental art the sciences produce and the deliberate art the artist creates, but… — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
Who thought it would be a good idea to undermine art in the school curriculum? Who thought studying the history of our… — Cornelia Parker Art 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 Artist 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 Art Copy Share Image
When people listen to music, they don't worry about what it means like they do about art. Everyone's an expert on music,… — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
I was selling bric-a-brac in Portobello and Camden Market. I love objects. But I was embarrassed by the idea of collecting, so… — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
... rarely if ever does one feel sure one knows enough to go ahead with much of anything new. You bank on… — Cornelia Parker Ability 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 Dramatic 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 Beautiful 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 Fish 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
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
