Words matter. These are the best Tracey Emin Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’ve got over so much. Mum wouldn’t want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again.
There’s so much stuff said about me that’s not true, so now if something is hurtful and wrong, I send an e-mail or letter immediately, saying, This is not true.
One thing about an artist, it doesn’t matter how much your work sells for in your life, it’s going to sell for ten times more than that after you’re dead, and that’s what you have to protect.
I have hardly any friends who aren’t gay.
I never grew up.
One thing that success has taught me is censorship.
They look at someone like me, and I just really get up their nose. I really wind them up.
There’s different kinds of love, and I’d never experienced that kind of totally platonic love. All the love I’ve experienced has always been a kind of deal, and now, as I get older, I realise that there’s this other love out there.
I am fiercely independent and I probably wouldn’t be if it wasn’t for the way in which I was brought up.
People try constantly to use me, and I hate it.
It wasn’t so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me.
I’ve been making bronze sculptures for a long time. My sculptures are wholly unsuccessful and uncommercial. No one is even the remotest bit interested in them. So it’s almost like my hobby.
It’s happened time and time again, but the committee has always decided against it-the work was too conservative or didn’t fit within the budget; there are millions of different reasons.
The idea that I’m going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I’m going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess.
I didn’t have an exhibition anywhere until I was 30. My first exhibition was at 30, and then for my first show in America, I’m 50. It’s kind of all right: I’m just a slow burner.
I’d like to think I inspire young people to be creative.
I really love animals. My cat is my little soul mate. He’s not just a cat, he’s my friend.
My work rarely comes up in secondary market, so it means that my prices stay low.
I’ve got to start using my brain more – I’ve got to be more ethereal and more enlightened.
I’m not trying to find another thing that’s wrong with me, but I’m such a nice person, and I have a couple of drinks and I’m really good fun and then I’m really not fun.
I’ve been slagged off completely by the art world.
Women, at 50, are on a plateau with their careers, but later they ascend.
My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now.
With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely different moral at the end.
When you’re 20 or 30, looking ahead, you see these benchmarks for relationships, career, ambition, sexuality, and they went off into infinity. When you get to 50, you look at what’s ahead of you, and there’s an end. It goes into a nothingness, a void.
