Cornelia Parker

I'm not very party-political, really; I am more strategic than that.

— Cornelia Parker

I like drawing from all kinds of territories in art.

— Cornelia Parker

I don't skip meals, because I get blood sugary.

— Cornelia Parker

I hadn't the personality to be a long-term Success.

— Cornelia Parker

I don't drive for pleasure. It's purely to get from A to B.

— Cornelia Parker

If you cut art from school, you're going to have a lot more looted shops.

— Cornelia Parker

Jeremy Corbyn makes me angry. He seems vain.

— Cornelia Parker

I need eight hours of sleep, but I never get it except at weekends.

— Cornelia Parker

I don't particularly look at other artists when I'm working. But references do come into my work intuitively.

— Cornelia Parker

If I was prime minister, I would declare a state of emergency on climate change.

— Cornelia Parker

The idea of going off to an office every day and 'putting on my art hat' doesn't appeal.

— Cornelia Parker

Paul Auster is my favourite writer, and I'm sure he'd be a very interesting person to share a journey with.

— Cornelia Parker

If people say, 'You can't do that,' you can be sure I will do my utmost to do it.

— Cornelia Parker

That's the problem with working and living in the same space - my studio is downstairs, so I often get distracted by…

— Cornelia Parker

The main trouble with this civilized world isn't that we adventure too much, but that we fail to adventure enough.

— Cornelia Parker

I was my father's sidekick, in a way. He was a very dominant, forceful character.

— Cornelia Parker

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

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

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

Heaven grants the human being who has learned to live alone a deep measure of such rewards that verily would one hesitate…

— Cornelia Parker

I was involved in a serious accident driving in torrential rain at midnight in Cardiff. I was only doing five miles an…

— Cornelia Parker

I do think there is a link between the accidental art the sciences produce and the deliberate art the artist creates, but…

— Cornelia Parker

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

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

Being a sculptor who uses found objects, all the objects I use in my work have been designed by other people. So…

— Cornelia Parker

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

I want to make work that reflects different times and processes.

— Cornelia Parker

As you get older, things don't work as well. I do Pilates, and that helps.

— Cornelia Parker

I gave birth aged 45, which was a bit of a shock.

— Cornelia Parker

New York, forever the port of em- and de-barkation en route to Adventure.

— Cornelia Parker

If you conceal things, they become more charged.

— Cornelia Parker

I have never fitted neatly into the arts section, I don't think.

— Cornelia Parker

I don't read the art mags. I read the newspapers.

— Cornelia Parker

Product design is fed by the avant-garde.

— Cornelia Parker

Traditional conceptual art is very dry.

— Cornelia Parker

I am interested in the press and what they do.

— Cornelia Parker

I do 10 minutes of Pilates every morning if I'm in the mood.

— Cornelia Parker

I'm trying not to go through that midlife dip that artists tend to have.

— Cornelia Parker

Dust, in the end, settles on everything.

— Cornelia Parker

I don't mind getting older; I just don't want to be in pain.

— Cornelia Parker