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I was selling bric-a-brac in Portobello and Camden Market. I love objects. But I was embarrassed by the idea of collecting, so I began using these things in my art.

~Cornelia Parker

Topics: Art Began Collecting Embarrassed Idea Love Market Objects Selling Things Using I Love

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I'm from a working-class background - I had free school meals all my life and then spent six years in art school.

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Topics: All My Life Art Art School Background Free Had Life Meals My Life School Six Spent Then Working-Class Years

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Product design is fed by the avant-garde.

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Topics: Avant-Garde Design Fed Product

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Who thought it would be a good idea to undermine art in the school curriculum? Who thought studying the history of our visual culture was a waste of time? Who thought that only private schools should have that privilege? Was it someone who said we don't need experts?

~Cornelia Parker

Topics: Art Culture Curriculum Experts Good Good Idea History Idea Need Only Our Private Privilege Said School Schools Should Someone Studying The History Of Thought Time Undermine Visual Waste Waste Of Time Who Would

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Our cultural industries are our biggest export, our biggest manufacturing base. Every pound spent on art education brings disproportionately large returns. It's the biggest bang for our buck. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. In fact, the more you put in, the greater the successes for the U.K. economy.

~Cornelia Parker

Topics: Art Bang Base Biggest Brings Broke Buck Cultural Economy Education Every Export Fact Fix Greater In Fact Industries Large Manufacturing More Our Pound Put Returns Spent Successes You

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As a working-class girl, receiving free school dinners, I studied art history. Having never had the chance to visit art galleries, I devoured the knowledge, and it has served me well as a practising artist.

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Topics: Art Art History Artist Chance Devoured Dinners Free Galleries Girl Had Having History Knowledge Me Never Practising Receiving School Served Studied Visit Well Working-Class

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I was very physical as a child - we lived on a smallholding, and I was always outside making mud pies or building structures up trees.

~Cornelia Parker

Topics: Always Building Child Lived Making Mud Outside Physical Structures Trees Up Very

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I didn't make any money out of my art until I was in my 40s, but it preserved my sanity and my freedom.

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Topics: Any Art Freedom Make Money Out Preserved Sanity Until

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I'm trying not to go through that midlife dip that artists tend to have.

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Topics: Artists Dip Go Tend Through Trying

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I don't mind getting older; I just don't want to be in pain.

~Cornelia Parker

Topics: Getting Getting Older Just Mind Older Pain Want

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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