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Cornelia Parker is a British sculptor known for her profound reflections on history and culture. Her works often use discarded or damaged objects, recombining and transforming them to give them new meanings. Parker's art has had a significant impact on the art world, and her creative methods and themes have sparked widespread discussion.

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“There's something about being in the country that makes you stick out like a sore thumb ? you're an anomaly. But in London there's always someone wilder and woollier.”

Country Sticks London Thumbs Anomalies Wilder

Author:Cornelia Parker

“I don't want it all to be pretty - it's a combination of loss and gain. Things are born, live and hang in limbo. That's what life's about.”

Want Born Loss Beauty Gains Combination Limbo

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“I've done some collaborations which have ended up like Chinese whispers, but the most successful was with Tilda Swinton... Together we transcended our previous work and made something better together than we could have done apart.”

Made Done Together Successful Chinese Collaboration Something Better Better Together Previous Work

Author:Cornelia Parker

“When people asked to buy my work I always said no. I'd had this rather rarefied idea that I didn't want money going through my head while I was making work. But after the car crash I realized that none of my work was owned by anyone. After that, I grew up a bit.”

People Want Said Ideas Bits Car Grew Grew Up I Realized Commerce Crash Car Crash

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“There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.”

Artist Freedom Being An Artist Renegades

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“If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill. It niggles when things get out of my control.”

Ifs Want Suffering Health Ill Reactions Psychological Allergic Allergic Reactions

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“There's only a certain amount of works you can make, so you have to make only the ones you really want to make. It's all about trying to be as productive as possible.”

Want Trying Certain Amount Productive

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“Once I started reinventing for myself what being an artist was - not going into a studio, but making things on my own terms in response to being out in the world - I started to really enjoy it... I realized that everything else for me was hell.”

World Artist Enjoy Term My Own Hell Response Studios I Realized Renewal Being An Artist Reinventing

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“The main trouble with this civilized world isn't that we adventure too much, but that we fail to adventure enough.”

World Enough Too Much Failing Trouble Adventure Civilized

Book:Wanderer's Circle

Source: Wanderer's Circle

“not only have children most certainly a right to their own ambitions, but their own lack of ambitions.”

Children Ambition Lack Of Ambition

Book:Wanderer's Circle

Source: Wanderer's Circle

“Trout fishing is like any other sport. It is waste of words to try to give anyone who has never tried it any idea of what it means to land a five-pound trout on a gossamer leader.”

Giving Trying Mean Ideas Sports Leader Five Land Waste Fishing Pounds Trout Trout Fishing

Author:Cornelia Parker

“New York, forever the port of em- and de-barkation en route to Adventure.”

Forever New York Adventure Ems Routes Port

Book:Wanderer's Circle

Source: Wanderer's Circle

“Heaven grants the human being who has learned to live alone a deep measure of such rewards that verily would one hesitate to sacrifice such proved satisfactions, such rare unending possibilities of contentment for anything less than certainty more certain still.”

Humans Stills Certain Heaven Human Beings Sacrifice Possibility Rewards Satisfaction Certainty Contentment Grants Unending

Author:Cornelia Parker

“I hadn't the personality to be a long-term Success.”

Long Term Personality Long Term Long Term Success

Book:Wanderer's Circle

Source: Wanderer's Circle

“... rarely if ever does one feel sure one knows enough to go ahead with much of anything new. You bank on faith and courage and the ability to learn on the job.”

Ifs Knows Feels Doe Enough Jobs Ability New You Faith And Courage

Book:Wanderer's Circle

Source: Wanderer's Circle

“Cry down materialism all you will, surely one of the thoroughly satisfactory sensations of this world is to feel financially independent.”

World Feels Cry This World Independent Materialism Sensations

Book:Wanderer's Circle

Source: Wanderer's Circle

“You make an open-ended proposition and the audience completes it somehow. That’s what you hope an artwork to be-a constantly living thing.”

Audience Propositions Living Things Artwork

Author:Cornelia Parker

About the Author

Born: 1956
Known for: Sculptor
Quotes: 17

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