Cornelia Parker Quotes

I can bring in all these different components, and I marry these components, and I let them get traversed by the viewer, who reorganizes them.

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

I don't even think about maintaining a relevance. I just think about what do I want to paint, what am I gonna do now, what am I gonna do later.

If I had to pick an artist that I look up to and am inspired by, it's Matisse because of how many times he would paint the same idea until he felt like he maybe got it right, and I try to do the same thing with my writing.

That's when I feel really excited about a painting. When it starts to feel real, when it feels like it has a personality.

I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

I couldn't go into the haphazard drawing or the paintings, the splashing of paint. I wanted to go back to a completely dry drawing, a dry conception of art.

The drawing is already partly there - it's in the paper. And the paper is talking before you do.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

My inspiration can come from anything - films, the street, paparazzi pictures.

When I work on a part, one of the things I love to do is to put together a collage of things, stuff I see or stuff that inspires me, images, whatever.

I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures my attention.

I just want to make cool art work that has some meaning.

You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It’s a game, right? It’s like being paid for dreaming.

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

Ideas for songs can come from something as simple as a photograph and letting my imagination run wild on an old photograph that I found, or to a film that I have seen or to just most of the time, just daily walking through life and keeping your eyes open.

Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie. Ordinary professionalism and twenty years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places. That still needs what it always needs - a condition of complete simplicity, costing not less than everything.

I'm a painter, that's where I started out, at four years old, that was my first love as far as expression. So, I'm not a painter in the sense of, "Please come see my paintings" but, I do understand the value of not looking over the artist's shoulder while the work is in progress.

Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.

My paintings are only the ashes of my art