... 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 …

- Cornelia Parker

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 produc…

- Cornelia Parker

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.

- Cornelia Parker

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 sa…

- Cornelia Parker

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

- 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.

- Cornelia Parker

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.

- Cornelia Parker

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

- Cornelia Parker

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 …

- Cornelia Parker