I never got to play as a child. All my spare time was spent working on my family’s smallholding. Cornelia Parker Read Quote
Violence is part of everybody’s life, whether you like or express it or not. My work utilises all the energies that I have, and part of it is violent, and I’d rather it be out than in. Cornelia Parker Read Quote
Artists and scientists both think outside the box. They’ve got to come with genius experiments or ideas to expose the most interesting phenomena. Cornelia Parker Read Quote
When I was a kid, my mother used to say, ‘You always want to be different.’ I couldn’t work out what she meant. I was just trying to be myself. Cornelia Parker Read Quote
I had two great art teachers at school, but even they tried to tell me it was too hard a world. But that made being an artist even more attractive. Cornelia Parker Read Quote
To make large, site-specific work as an artist is usually quite tortuous; there are so many boxes you have to tick. Cornelia Parker Read Quote
I like the idea of taking three-dimensional objects and making them two-dimensional so that they look like cartoons. Cornelia Parker Read Quote
