Cornelia Parker Quotes

Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes.

I'm not the average artist.

I like that I'm not typical. I like that I'm called 'no-genre hip-hop.'

Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.

I've told people before that I don't want to be a part of a genre; I want to be my own genre. I want to create it.

I'm not like any other artist, point blank.

Some artists say 'Don't categorize me.' I'm saying 'You can't categorize me.'

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

I've been such an oddball my whole life, but I've always been cool and I've always dressed fairly smartly.

When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

I want to be an artist you cannot categorize at all. You can't put a box around me. You can't put anything around me.

Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.

Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

It turns out that I'm far too schizophrenic musically for people to categorize me. I think people judge me a lot before they ever really know who I am.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

My shaven head is my way of saying 'I wont take no for an answer,' it is my way of saying 'I believe in my creativity and artistry.'

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying to be difficult; I'm just trying to stick with what it is I want to do.

I'm a free spirit and that definitely comes from my upbringing, so it's definitely shaped me as an artist.

I know I'm never going to be a big pop star, because I'm not willing to conform.

I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.

I think we're quite unique in that we do have our own sound and approach and we don't really care what's going on elsewhere... we've never wanted to be part of another trend or movement.

Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.