Cornelia Parker Quotes

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

I love history. I love art. I like to mix it all together, but in the end it somehow has to all make sense.

A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.

My work, in a certain way, got started in 1996 when I did an exhibition of thirteen paintings that were solely based on fashion imagery.

Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don't know what that is; I don't think too much about that.

My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.

The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me.

I wanted to make pictures where you would not know who took them. I also bring the present into the past.

'The Missing Picture' came together slowly, after much provocation and by refusing different forms, until I finally found the right form.

All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.

My approach to portraiture is conceptual.

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

In art there is no progress, only fluctuations of intensity.

I think art parallels life; it is not a report on nature or on intimate disclosure of inner secrets. Color, in my opinion, behaves like man -- in two distinct ways: first in self-realization and then in the realization of relationships with others.

My core competency has really informed my painting. The roots of editing stem from classical paintings - classic painters intended to drive your eye from this conflict to that intrigue, ending with a caprice. That is a montage, that is editing. It became a flipbook in later generations.

It began in images and it ended in symbolism.

But let's speak of art for a moment. Yes, art. I know a gentleman who makes excellent portraits. This gentleman is a camera.

I believe Fabio Celoni's work vividly brings to life not only the mountains, the bazaars, the city of Kabul and its kite-dotted skies, but also the many struggles, conflicts, and emotional highs and lows of Amir's journey [from the The Kite Runner].

I've ended up as a filmmaker who really loves the movie part of movies. That time in my life was a big influence on the kind of movies that I ended up making. I always think I'm going to make a movie that's gritty and real, but then I make a movie that's like an opera. I fight it at first and then that's just the way it is.

You think you photograph a particular scene for the pleasure it gives. In fact it's the scene that wants to be photographed. You're merely an extra in the production.

I have never painted a recent picture.

When painting portraits a lot of people say, 'Why not get a photograph of the person?' Photography is wonderful and it is an art form in itself, but... my portrait is a culmination of elements... a truer image of a person than just the 'click' of a snapshot.

Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.

Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.