A lot of my stuff just wasn’t saleable. I still don’t do private or corporate commissions. It becomes like interior design. I don’t enjoy it. The process makes me feel physically sick. Cornelia Parker Read Quote
If people say, ‘You can’t do that,’ you can be sure I will do my utmost to do it. Cornelia Parker Read Quote
You only get one life, so it seems to me you might as well do the things you want to do. Cornelia Parker Read Quote
I was my father’s sidekick, in a way. He was a very dominant, forceful character. Cornelia Parker Read Quote
I think I was a late developer because I’d been stuck in the country and was a little bit shy and withdrawn.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 Read Quote
After leaving college, I was in a show called Sculpture by Women where I was asked to talk about my history of victimisation in art, and I genuinely didn’t think I had been victimised. Although I obviously believe in a lot of the feminist aspirations, I was wary about being dragged down by the politics of it. Cornelia Parker Read Quote
Paul Auster is my favourite writer, and I’m sure he’d be a very interesting person to share a journey with. Cornelia Parker Read Quote
I do think there is a link between the accidental art the sciences produce and the deliberate art the artist creates, but I can’t help feeling that the innocence of the accidental art of science has a power and curious beauty that artists are hard-pressed to match. Cornelia Parker Read Quote
I don’t want to feel like an ambulance chaser, but very often, when I hear about a fire, my first instinct is to make a piece of art out of it. Cornelia Parker Read Quote
