Cornelia Parker
Quotes by Cornelia Parker
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My father wanted a boy badly and didn't get one, so I was happy to be the surrogate boy. I was very strong, always doing manual labour.
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A lot of my work has been about stuff I've been frightened of: cliffs, explosions, meteorites, that kind of stuff. I would have been this trembling blob of fear if I hadn't got into making art, which is a good way of deferring it.
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Being a sculptor who uses found objects, all the objects I use in my work have been designed by other people. So I'm tweaking them in some way by squashing them or throwing them off cliffs! Then I formalise my damage by suspending them or arranging them in some kind of way. So I'm using other people's design in a way, so I'm an 'un-maker.'
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I like the idea of taking three-dimensional objects and making them two-dimensional so that they look like cartoons.
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At times, I've been incapacitated by anxiety and unhappiness. You really know what joy is if you have experienced the opposite.
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Living in a warehouse is great - but after a while, you just want a garden.
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