"There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing."
"When people asked to buy my work I always said no. I'd had this rather rarefied idea that I didn't want money going through my head while I was making work. But after the car crash I realized that none of my work was owned by anyone. After that, I grew up a bit."
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Source: Cornelia Stratton Parker (1934). “Wanderer's Circle”
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