Cornelia Parker Quotes

I think every artist would love to just please themselves musically all day long.

There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.

When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world.

I never wanted to be a professional artist; I think that's limiting.

I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

I'm not defining my band by other people's music, but by my own.

A citizen sticks to conventions, does whatever is social. Artists, of course, must reject all conventions. I see no differently in reconciling the best of both of these worlds.

Through art, you create your own world.

I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.

I listen to music, I read scripts, and I know pretty intuitively if I can unlock it in a way. It's actually very liberating when you understand that not everything is for you.

The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.

In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age. Music gave me another outlet. The 'no wave' bands were such an inspiration; it felt so free - once you start doing it, it's hard to stop. But I can't get away from art. It comes back around. I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't pursue it.

As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.

Making art has never been a mystery to me. It's never been something that's very difficult.

Most of the time, as an artist, I can be self-indulgent, fulfilling my own impulses, embracing imagery that contains poetry on my own terms, without immediate regard to an audience or the particular placement of my finished work.

All artists are now free to express their own personality.

My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.

I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything.

Being an artist is being at the service of yourself; I am at the service of other people.

I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

Film has the potential of allowing me to explore my own ideas, which I find very attractive.

When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.