Quotes by Artists

I always feel my work is a chemical reaction between me and the world, wherever I happen to be. Cornelia Parker

Work Me World Feel Between Reaction Chemical Always Happen Wherever

I feel our relationship to life, to the rest of the world, is very tenuous. It feels fleeting. Cornelia Parker

Life Relationship World Rest Our Feel Feels Very Fleeting

I think my work is like a spiral: you keep coming back on yourself, but you're at a different place. It's like reading 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' every five years. You realise that some things have caught up. Cornelia Parker

Work You Yourself Reading Every Think Back Nineteen Some Spiral Some Things Like Caught Coming Years Up Five Different Realise Place Different Place Keep Things

I don't read the art mags. I read the newspapers. Cornelia Parker

Art Read Newspapers

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

You Joy Anxiety Know Opposite Been Times Experienced Unhappiness Really

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. Cornelia Parker

Work Together People Big Dramatic Once Worry About Smaller Feel Like Make How Been Itch Fits Quieter Goes Often Scratch Scratched Just Want Anymore Works Away Compelled

I try to avoid the 'art world' as much as possible. It's too much about fads and fashions - who's getting the best prices at auction and things like that. Cornelia Parker

Art Best World Try Too Much Too Possible About Prices Fads Like Auction Art World Getting Much Avoid Fashions Things

I don't particularly look at other artists when I'm working. But references do come into my work intuitively. Cornelia Parker

Work Other Intuitively Come Look Particularly References Artists Working

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

You People Will Say People Say Sure Utmost

If you conceal things, they become more charged. Cornelia Parker

You Become Charged More Conceal Things

Driving a steamroller over an old trumpet or a teaspoon is no more destructive than taking a chisel to a lump of marble already torn from the landscape. But people don't see it that way because marble is considered noble. Cornelia Parker

People Old Considered Way Destructive Torn See More Driving Noble Taking Over Because Trumpet Than Chisel Landscape Marble Lump

I gave birth aged 45, which was a bit of a shock. Cornelia Parker

Birth Gave Bit Shock Which Aged

To make large, site-specific work as an artist is usually quite tortuous; there are so many boxes you have to tick. Cornelia Parker

Work You Tortuous Tick Make Boxes Artist Quite Large Many

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

Work Allergic Reaction Doing Get Want Psychological Ill Suffer

If you cut art from school, you're going to have a lot more looted shops. Cornelia Parker

Art You School More Lot Going Shops Cut

Living in a warehouse is great - but after a while, you just want a garden. Cornelia Parker

Great You Garden Living Just Want After While Warehouse

I never got to play as a child. All my spare time was spent working on my family's smallholding. Cornelia Parker

Time Family Spent Never Got Child Spare Spare Time Working Play

Yes, it's a prequel. It tells the story about how the girls were born with superpowers, but they weren't necessarily heroes at the beginning of this movie, so the movie is about the events that happen in their life to make them decide to be heroes. Craig McCracken

There's a lot you can do without words. Craig McCracken

You Words Without Lot