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

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

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

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

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

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

- Cornelia Parker

... 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

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

- Cornelia Parker