Cornelia Parker Quotes

The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.

You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It’s a game, right? It’s like being paid for dreaming.

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

That's the buzz for me, the creative process. An idea is never as good as when it's in your head. And then it's just how little you ruin it.

What I do enjoy is the creative process.

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

To be an artist means not to compute or count.

Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.

But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.

The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.

I get lost in my right brain, especially in creative things.

I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

All stories come from the subconscious - which is why it doesn't make sense to over-plan.

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

I like the creative aspect of developing a project.

You think about the beauty and what you want to transmit. If I think about designing, I can't design.

People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.