97 Quotes by Cornelia Parker

Art historical reference is like learning to drive a car - you always know how to drive even though you're not analysing how.

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

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

Beauty is too easy. Often in my work, I take beautiful objects and do extreme things to them so that they are overlaid with something a bit more sinister and violent.

Even though people think I am more of a conceptual artist, I am actually very intuitive. For me, it is still a matter of allowing things to naturally rise to the top of my mental pile, and then I make them.

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.

People often want the big dramatic works, not the smaller quieter ones, but I don't worry about how it fits together anymore; I just have to do it. I feel compelled to make a work: it's like an itch I have to scratch, and once it's been scratched, it goes away.

Some people separate their work and home lives, but I love the idea of having my studio and house in the same space.

I like the idea of taking three-dimensional objects and making them two-dimensional so that they look like cartoons.