I think your subconscious knows far more than your conscious, so I trust it. — Cornelia Parker 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 am not a propagandist; my work has often had a political dimension but, hopefully, one that is not didactic and is… — Cornelia Parker 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
My father was a very controlling man, and it was a big relief to get away from that. — Cornelia Parker 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
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
There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing. — Cornelia Parker Art Copy Share Image
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
I always feel my work is a chemical reaction between me and the world, wherever I happen to be. — Cornelia Parker 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 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
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
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
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 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 was very physical as a child - we lived on a smallholding, and I was always outside making mud pies or… — Cornelia Parker 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
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 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 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
Art and creativity are crucial, whether you're a mathematician, a scientist, or an artist. — Cornelia Parker Art 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 don't want to feel like an ambulance chaser, but very often, when I hear about a fire, my first instinct is… — Cornelia Parker 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
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
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 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
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 feel our relationship to life, to the rest of the world, is very tenuous. It feels fleeting. — Cornelia Parker 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 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
I definitely didn't want children, because my childhood was not a very happy time. — Cornelia Parker Childhood Copy Share Image
