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My iPhone has always been my sketchbook.

~Cornelia Parker

Topics: Always Been Iphone

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I have always had a bob haircut because my hair is so fine and doesn't like being long.

~Cornelia Parker

Topics: Always Because Being Bob Fine Had Hair Haircut Like Long

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

~Cornelia Parker

Topics: Always Between Chemical Feel Happen Me Reaction Wherever Work World

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If it is good enough for Prince William and Kate, why is studying art history not good enough for the masses?

~Cornelia Parker

Topics: Art Art History Enough Good History Kate Masses Not Good Enough Prince Studying Why William

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My mother was German, and I was brought up with 'Struwwelpeter' stories, which are invested with all sorts of horrors waiting for you if you do the wrong thing.

~Cornelia Parker

Topics: Brought German Horrors Invested Mother Sort Stories Thing Up Waiting Which Wrong Wrong Thing You

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Art and creativity are crucial, whether you're a mathematician, a scientist, or an artist.

~Cornelia Parker

Topics: Art Artist Creativity Crucial Mathematician Scientist Whether You

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I didn't really know what I was looking at when I first came across Man Ray's 'Dust Breeding,' his photograph of a work by Marcel Duchamp called 'Large Glass.' It looked like an aerial photograph or a view through a microscope.

~Cornelia Parker

Topics: Across Aerial Breeding Came Dust First Glass His Know Large Like Looked Looking Man Microscope Photograph Ray Really Through View Work

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What was the most important thing I learned from Chomsky? That capitalism compels us to work ourselves to death in order to stuff our houses with things we don't need. Perhaps this is one thing art can do: create a new aesthetic, one of austerity.

~Cornelia Parker

Topics: Aesthetic Art Austerity Capitalism Compels Create Death Houses Important Important Thing Learned Most Most Important Thing Need New One Thing Order Our Ourselves Perhaps Stuff The Most Important Thing Things Us Work

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The best ideas come out of getting lost.

~Cornelia Parker

Topics: Best Come Getting Ideas Lost Out

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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

Topics: Artists Both Box Come Experiments Expose Genius Got Ideas Interesting Most Outside Phenomena Scientists Think

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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