Cornelia Parker Quotes

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I think your subconscious knows far more than your conscious, so I trust it. I just make it first and then it becomes much clearer to me why.

Cornelia Parker
My work has threads of ideas from all over the place. I try to crystallise them in something simple and direct that the viewer can then take where they want.

Cornelia Parker
I like to take man-made objects and push them to the point where they almost lose their reference, so that they become something else, take on other alliances.

Cornelia Parker
Trout fishing is like any other sport. It is waste of words to try to give anyone who has never tried it any idea of what it means to land a five-pound trout on a gossamer leader.

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

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 satisfactions, such rare unending possibilities of contentment for anything less than certainty more certain still.

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
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 on the job.

Cornelia Parker