Tracey Emin Quotes

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• I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.
• I found that life has to be edited to continue.
• I had become conscious of my physicality, aware of my presence and open to the ugly truths of the world. At the age of thirteen,…
• Strolling on the plateau of life, desperate for the mountain, I never thought that I would get this far. It's only art that has carried…
• What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one…
• When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my…
• When I think about sex it makes me realise how alone I feel.
• There is no comparison between him and me; he developed a whole new way of making art and he's clearly in a league of his…
• People try constantly to use me, and I hate it.
• Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing
• It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me
• I am fiercely independent and I probably wouldn't be if it wasn't for the way in which I was brought up
• One thing that success has taught me is censorship
• It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area
• If I didn't want to work for a couple of years, I wouldn't have to-it's a great feeling, to know I'm doing it because I…
• I've been slagged off completely by the art world
• 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 thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective
• They grew really quickly. One minute I didn't have any tits and the next I had the biggest tits in the world
• It pleases me that people can be interactive

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