Quotes by Cornelia Parker - Page 3

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 / Sculptor
Curriculum
Experts
Waste
Visual
Art Time History
Time History Art
Good Idea
Private
Private Schools
Schools
Studying
Undermine
Waste Of Time
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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 / Sculptor
Armageddon
Catholic
Global Warming
Sympathetic
Upbringing
Work Thinking Always
Work Thinking Me
Bay
Corner
Warming
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Artists and scientists are very close. They always have been, but I think we've just been divided out over the last few centuries into specialisms. Leonardo da Vinci was drawing helicopters and all kinds of things. We're artificially divided. I think we're closer than we think we are.
Cornelia Parker / Sculptor
Divided
Drawing
Helicopters
Leonardo
Artificially
Artists
Centuries
Close
Scientists
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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 / Sculptor
Broke
Manufacturing
Bang
Buck
Disproportionately
Export
Industries
Pound
Returns
Successes
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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.
Cornelia Parker / Sculptor
Junction
Midnight
Miles
Rain
Shattered
Accident
Crossed
Hospital
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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.
Cornelia Parker / Sculptor
Sculpture
Aspirations
Genuinely
Dragged
Wary
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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 / Sculptor
Courses
Halfway
Introduction
Sculpture
Technique
Carve
Classes
Forge
Missed
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Being a sculptor who uses found objects, all the objects I use in my work have been designed by other people. So I'm tweaking them in some way by squashing them or throwing them off cliffs! Then I formalise my damage by suspending them or arranging them in some kind of way. So I'm using other people's design in a way, so I'm an 'un-maker.'
Cornelia Parker / Sculptor
Design
Arranging
Cliffs
Damage
Throwing
Work Use People
Work Design People
Designed
Sculptor
Tweaking
Uses
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