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I think your subconscious knows far more than your conscious, so I trust it.
Quote by -Cornelia Parker
I can consciously say I like squashing things because I saw 'Tom and Jerry' films or Charlie Chaplin in 'Modern Times.' That's true.
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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.
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I am not a propagandist; my work has often had a political dimension but, hopefully, one that is not didactic and is open to interpretation.
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I was involved in a serious accident driving in torrential rain at midnight in Cardiff. I was only doing five miles an hour, but because I couldn't see very well, I crossed a junction and collided with another car that was driving very fast. I ended up in hospital for six weeks with a shattered pelvis.
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Paul Auster is my favourite writer, and I'm sure he'd be a very interesting person to share a journey with.
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I do think there is a link between the accidental art the sciences produce and the deliberate art the artist creates, but I can't help feeling that the innocence of the accidental art of science has a power and curious beauty that artists are hard-pressed to match.
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Some people separate their work and home lives, but I love the idea of having my studio and house in the same space.
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The idea of going off to an office every day and 'putting on my art hat' doesn't appeal.
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I always feel my work is a chemical reaction between me and the world, wherever I happen to be.
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I feel our relationship to life, to the rest of the world, is very tenuous. It feels fleeting.
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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.
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I'd love to do something like put a piece of moon rock on Mars and a piece of Mars on the moon, a sort of reverse archaeology.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My father was a very controlling man, and it was a big relief to get away from that.
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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.
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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.
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My parents were always doubtful about my making a living as an artist. Even when I was up for the Turner Prize, my mum suggested I apply for a curator's job.
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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.
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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.
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I think I'm a feminist, hopefully by example. I just feel it's important to do as much as I can as a woman, to the best of my ability.
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I definitely didn't want children, because my childhood was not a very happy time.
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Beauty is too easy. Often in my work, I take beautiful objects and do extreme things to them so that they are overlaid with something a bit more sinister and violent.
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I don't particularly look at other artists when I'm working. But references do come into my work intuitively.
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Art historical reference is like learning to drive a car - you always know how to drive even though you're not analysing how.
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That's the problem with working and living in the same space - my studio is downstairs, so I often get distracted by domestic things.
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If I was prime minister, I would declare a state of emergency on climate change.
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When people listen to music, they don't worry about what it means like they do about art. Everyone's an expert on music, but with art, I always find I have to defend its existence.
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Even though people think I am more of a conceptual artist, I am actually very intuitive. For me, it is still a matter of allowing things to naturally rise to the top of my mental pile, and then I make them.
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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.
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After leaving college, I was in a show called Sculpture by Women where I was asked to talk about my history of victimisation in art, and I genuinely didn't think I had been victimised. Although I obviously believe in a lot of the feminist aspirations, I was wary about being dragged down by the politics of it.
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I think I was a late developer because I'd been stuck in the country and was a little bit shy and withdrawn.
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