Cornelia Parker Quotes

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

There's always a way to say something that could seem really commonplace and make it special again.

Spring is very energising to me.

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.

Spring is a true reconstructionist.

Everything that's old is new, and everything that's new is old.

The band was rejuvenated by that wonderful day. It breathed new life into us.

The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life.

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

I like to wake up each morning feeling a new man.

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?

We have to breathe new life into Europe.

For me, 'Resurrected' is just like I'm saying, 'I'm still here; I'm still having fun, and I'm still going.'

When innovations become habits, prescriptions, they must be imagined all over again, made new.

It does feel that TS5 gave me such a new lease of life.

To be worn out is to be renewed.

What’s old doesn’t need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.

So coming back from a journey, or after an illness, before habits had spun themselves across the surface, one felt that same unreality, which was so startling; felt something emerge. Life was most vivid then.

They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop.

Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life.

Our show is about starting over.

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

We definitely need to get the excitement back.

So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit of an earlier age.