Tracey Emin

Someone else who liked what I did might turn around and say, "She's reworking and rethinking everything. She could just be making…

— Tracey Emin

I know people went to laugh at my bed and to jeer at it. Still, at least they actually went to see…

— Tracey Emin

People don't remember. Revenge is sweet.

— Tracey Emin

I'm a terrible cook, but if I could cook, I would see that in art as well, it's how much creative energy…

— Tracey Emin

For me, being an artist with a high profile is a good thing for art.

— Tracey Emin

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

I really love animals. My cat is my little soul mate. He's not just a cat, he's my friend.

— Tracey Emin

It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me

— Tracey Emin

The reason why I'm popular as an artist in this country is because it suits the psyche of the nation at this…

— Tracey Emin

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

I found that life has to be edited to continue.

— Tracey Emin

“DON'T BE AFRAID TO TAKE THE PAST HEAD ON.”

— Tracey Emin

“I don’t believe in love, but I believe in you.”

— Tracey Emin

When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that…

— Tracey Emin

“He pulled my skirt up. I began to worry. Everyone knew he had broken in girls before and I didn't want it…

— Tracey Emin

The words went round and round and round in my mind and my body, until I knew they were no longer my…

— Tracey Emin

I've been making bronze sculptures for a long time. My sculptures are wholly unsuccessful and uncommercial. No one is even the remotest…

— Tracey Emin

They look at someone like me, and I just really get up their nose. I really wind them up.

— Tracey Emin

I've never been married because, first of all, I don't think I've ever seriously been asked by anyone who I wanted to…

— Tracey Emin

With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely…

— Tracey Emin

I've been slagged off completely by the art world

— Tracey Emin

I didn't have an exhibition anywhere until I was 30. My first exhibition was at 30, and then for my first show…

— Tracey Emin

The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of…

— Tracey Emin

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…

— Tracey Emin

When you're 20 or 30, looking ahead, you see these benchmarks for relationships, career, ambition, sexuality, and they went off into infinity.…

— Tracey Emin