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I started doing sculpture rather than painting. I was halfway through my degree, and I hadn't really done any introduction courses in sculpture... I'd missed all the technical stuff. I didn't really know how to weld or forge or carve or model. I'd sort of evaded all those technique classes, so I had no technique.

~Cornelia Parker

Topics: Any Carve Classes Courses Degree Doing Done Forge Had Halfway How Introduction Know Missed Model Painting Rather Really Sculpture Sort Started Stuff Technical Technique Than Those Through

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Maybe it's my Catholic upbringing - I grew up thinking that Armageddon was just around the corner - now I know it is, with global warming and all. I can keep it at bay by doing the work. It's a sort of reverse sympathetic magic. I'm always doing it so it doesn't happen to me.

~Cornelia Parker

Topics: Always Armageddon Around Bay Catholic Corner Doing Global Global Warming Grew Happen Just Keep Know Magic Maybe Me Now Reverse Sort Sympathetic Thinking Up Upbringing Warming Work I Can

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

~Cornelia Parker

Topics: Able Different Different Ways Lots People Read Want Ways Work

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

~Cornelia Parker

Topics: Away Big Controlling Father Get Man Relief Very

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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.

~Cornelia Parker

Topics: Angst Artist Emotional Emotions Experienced Explore Helps Intense Mill Spectrum Want Whole Work You Your

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

~Cornelia Parker

Topics: Anxiety Been Experienced Joy Know Opposite Really Times Unhappiness You

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Jeremy Corbyn makes me angry. He seems vain.

~Cornelia Parker

Topics: Angry He Jeremy Makes Me Seems Vain

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I need eight hours of sleep, but I never get it except at weekends.

~Cornelia Parker

Topics: Eight Except Get Hours Need Never Sleep Weekends

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I do 10 minutes of Pilates every morning if I'm in the mood.

~Cornelia Parker

Topics: Every Minutes Mood Morning Pilates

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I don't skip meals, because I get blood sugary.

~Cornelia Parker

Topics: Because Blood Get Meals Skip

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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