97 Quotes by Cornelia Parker

If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill.

I don't want my work to be issue-based. I want people to be able to read it in lots of different ways.

Product design is fed by the avant-garde.

My father was a very controlling man, and it was a big relief to get away from that.

You don't have to have angst to be an artist, but it's grist to the mill. If you want to explore the whole emotional spectrum in your work, it helps to have experienced intense emotions.

If you conceal things, they become more charged.

I definitely didn't want children, because my childhood was not a very happy time.

At times, I've been incapacitated by anxiety and unhappiness. You really know what joy is if you have experienced the opposite.

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.