Best quotes by Cornelia Parker on Art

Checkout quotes by Cornelia Parker on Art

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

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• ‟ I went to a quite macho art school in the 1970s, and while everyone was making hulking big sculptures, I was making things out of bits of paper.

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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.

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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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• ‟ 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?

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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?

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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.

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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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• ‟ 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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• ‟ A lot of my work has been about stuff I've been frightened of: cliffs, explosions, meteorites, that kind of stuff. I would have been this trembling blob of fear if I hadn't got into making art, which is a good way of deferring it.

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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 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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• ‟ I don't want to feel like an ambulance chaser, but very often, when I hear about a fire, my first instinct is to make a piece of art out of it.

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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 don't read the art mags. I read the newspapers.

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