Cornelia Parker Quotes

I enjoy looking, learning, smiling, and engaging with art, sometimes even rejecting it.

I have a strong art-history background.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

I have tons of art books. I have them all over the place. They are in my car, in my bag, and in my studio. There are books around me all the time.

Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.

I have a longstanding fascination with visual art. I do, in fact, draw as well, as I did in 'The Summer without Men.' I also write essays about visual art.

I've always done live art history lectures and small documentaries in the past in Australia, on Australian art and art galleries, so I've already done a lot of that.

Often, when art from the canon is brought in to fine art classes, it is used as a prop to inspire art-making projects but more rarely as something to study in-depth for itself.

I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.

This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art, has for twenty-five years been hashing over other people's ideas about realism, naturalism and all that nonsense; for twenty-five years he has been reading and writing about what intelligent people already know and about what stupid people don't want to know--which means that for twenty-five years he's been taking nothing and making nothing out of it. And with it all, what conceit! What pretension!

I wanted to go into art history. Acting fell into my lap when a neighbor took pictures of me and showed them to an agent.

Like any artwork, things become richer if you know more about them; but I don't think that's crucial.

When some people were going around being surf bums and tennis bums, I was being a gallery bum. I really liked galleries.

I've been an art collector since the Sixties, and I kept it very separate from my showbusiness career. I've had art shows since the early Nineties, a museum show that travelled to four countries. I've had three or four art books; it's just another way I have to tell stories.

Seattle has a long tradition of celebrating local and non-local art - from the Burke and Seattle Art Museums to the Asian Art Museum.

If we investigate the vague feelings of the average man towards the arts, we find that he is timid and that he has developed a humble belief that art is something which has been invented centuries ago in countries like Greece or Italy and that all we can do about it is study it carefully and apply it.

If I can't be fishing or hunting, I want to be in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

I don't go to enough exhibitions, purely because it intimidates me.

I'm extremely interested in art, every form of art, but I'm interested in it when it's good and interested in it when it's interesting.

Sometimes the art world can be a scary place, and you feel like you should know more than you do, but it's okay to not know everything!

At our house, my father loved the arts. Among his favorite things was 'The Metropolitan Museum of Art Album of Miniatures' - a box set of small books on different art periods. I'd go into the living room at night and sit on the arm of his chair as he studied the images.

I think art was the one thing my high school didn't give. And I think that was probably one reason why I was interested in it.

I don't worry about whether anyone knows anything about art.

We always have a great time touring Germany, but one of my favourite museums in the world is Museum Ludwig, an incredible contemporary art museum in Cologne. I could spend all day in it.

I have seen Colonial churches since I was very small, Colonial painting and polychrome sculpture. And that was all I saw. There was not a single modern painting in any museum, not a Picasso, not a Braque, not a Chagall. The museums had Colombian painters from the eighteenth century and, of course, I saw Pre-Columbian art. That was my exposure.