Cornelia Parker Quotes

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

If you have to design something, choose things that we need as opposed to frivolous things that we might just want for a month or two for bragging rights.

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

It's a survival thing. I don't do anything to be artistic or just because I like it.

If I'm going to Kilburn, I get on a bus.

You will always see big, chunky bags around me. I have always been fond of bags. Bags are extremely essential because I keep my books in them.

I can't tell you how wonderful it is to hop in my car and drive home after rehearsal.

To use is necessary. And if you can't be used, then you're useless.

Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.

I don’t really believe in cars, but I drive one every day and I love that it gets me places and makes life so much easier and faster and I don’t know what I would do without it.

Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.

I take the subway to work. I fly coach back and forth to Chicago.

Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.

A farmer's horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind. Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties...and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.

A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work.

Belts are only good for holding up your pants

Art is borne out of necessity. Music is a tool and men are doers. When a relationship is working, you don't need to write a song-you need to get toilet paper.

Usefulness depends on tractability.

Never buy anything with a handle on it. It means work.

People loved their horses, too. But you don't keep riding your horse to work just because you love it.

C'est véritablement utile puisque c'est joli. It is truly useful since it is beautiful.