My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now. — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober,… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
I want to spend my life with someone and do nice things and go on adventures, read books and have nice food… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
“When I was 14-15 There was nothing to my life but dancing and sex I'd go to night clubs and dance Then… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
Strolling on the plateau of life, desperate for the mountain, I never thought that I would get this far. It's only art… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
One thing about an artist, it doesn't matter how much your work sells for in your life, it's going to sell for… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
I've worked really hard. I've made three pieces of seminal art in my life. If I died tomorrow, I'd be remembered for… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
Criticism on my works is like this: you've worked hard all of your life, you went to Oxford, and you've done this… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
What's in yesterday's newspaper is today's fish-and-chip paper. If it really affects my life so badly, so personally, then I would do… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
Someone else who liked what I did might turn around and say, "She's reworking and rethinking everything. She could just be making blankets now,… — Tracey Emin Copy Share
I know people went to laugh at my bed and to jeer at it. Still, at least they actually went to see it. — Tracey Emin Copy Share
I'm a terrible cook, but if I could cook, I would see that in art as well, it's how much creative energy you put… — Tracey Emin Copy Share
When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here. — Tracey Emin Copy Share
I really love animals. My cat is my little soul mate. He's not just a cat, he's my friend. — Tracey Emin Copy Share
The reason why I'm popular as an artist in this country is because it suits the psyche of the nation at this time. Ten… — Tracey Emin Copy Share
Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism. — Tracey Emin Copy Share
When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make… — Tracey Emin Copy Share
“He pulled my skirt up. I began to worry. Everyone knew he had broken in girls before and I didn't want it to happen… — Tracey Emin Copy Share
