Cornelia Parker Quotes

An artist must not feel under any constraint.

I love this freedom that has been given to me as an artist to express myself.

I am a poet; I am not a worker. I need to be free.

We need to give artists a lot of free room to create.

If we pretend to respect the artist at all we must allow him his freedom of choice , in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions that the choice will not fructify.

When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.

... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.

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

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

I've been very lucky in the freedom that I've been given. Every artist needs two types of freedom: You need the freedom to - the freedom to come up with an idea or treatment - and then you need the other half of the freedom, and that's freedom from - somebody saying, 'This is great. This is how I want you to do it.'

I'm lucky enough to exist in 2018, where I have a record label that's like, 'Write whatever you want to write.' I don't have to hide anything.

I just don't feel limited by genre.

My ethos is musical freedom: to create whatever I want.

I want to be as creative as I want. I don't ever want to have to compromise; I don't ever want anybody ever to tell me what to do, I don't ever want to argue with somebody because of my vision.

I had a lot more creative freedom back in the day.

It's so nice to be totally artistically free.

I wanted a label that reflects the times... a center for artists who want to express themselves. That's what makes Interscope unique. It's about freedom.

I like artists to have some freedom.

Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want!

The artist as an artist must be an anarchist

Basically I just had to say, 'Screw everyone around me - from now on I'm just gonna play what I think is important to me and our music.' So I gave the big finger to all the current trends in technical wizardry, and just went off and did what I felt was best for the songs.

People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

My greatest accomplishment is the freedom for doing what I want to do with my music...I love my freedom so I'm happy I am a free artist.

Once I started reinventing for myself what being an artist was - not going into a studio, but making things on my own terms in response to being out in the world - I started to really enjoy it... I realized that everything else for me was hell.