InspiringQuotes

Tracey Emin Quotes:

Tracey Emin quotes

Ocupation: Artist

Life: b. July 3, 1963

Birthday: July 3

famous quotes

Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up.

Topics: Running, Art, Lovers

quote there should be something revelatory about art it should be totally creative and open tracey emin Quotes

The wheel that squeaks gets the oil.

Topics: Oil, Wheels

I have hardly any friends who aren't gay

Topics: Gay, Gay Pride

It pleases me that people can be interactive

Topics: People, Please, Interactive

They grew really quickly. One minute I didn't have any ***** and the next I had the biggest ***** in the world

Topics: Next, World, Grew

I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective

Topics: Exhibitions, Would Be, My One And Only, Retrospective

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

Topics: Couple, Fun, Nice, Good Fun, Nice Person

I've been slagged off completely by the art world

Topics: Art, World

There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences.

Topics: Art, Doors, Creative

I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again

Topics: Want, Mum

Sometimes i feel lonely, but it's ok

Topics: Lonely, Sometimes, Feels, I Feel Lonely

People don't remember. Revenge is sweet.

Topics: Sweet, Revenge, People, Exacting Revenge, Revenge Is Sweet

Theres different kinds of love, and Id never experienced that kind of totally platonic love. All the love Ive experienced has always been a kind of deal, and now, as I get older, I realise that theres this other love out there.

Topics: Different, Kind, Platonic Love, Kinds Of Love, Different Kinds

The soul will always do what it needs to do,

Topics: Soul, Needs

Being an artist and having to be responsible for the art that you make is really quite challenging, and as you get older it becomes more and more difficult.

Topics: Art, Challenges, Aging

I'm not opposed to commerce, even though I'm an artist.

Topics: Artist, Commerce

I had to come to terms with my failure as an artist... I had to find a way for myself.

Topics: Failure, Artist, Way

What's really good about the word 'art' is that 'art' is a word like 'love,' or 'god,' or whatever. It transcends so many things...

Topics: Art, Art Is

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 want to do it

Topics: Couple, Years, Feelings

It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area

Topics: Memories, Years, Moments, Gray Area

One thing that success has taught me is censorship

source: - "Show and tell". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2001.

Topics: Taught, Censorship

My New Year's Eve is always 2 July, the night before my birthday. That's the night I make my resolutions. And this year scares the life out of me, because no matter how successful, how good things appear, there is always a deep core of failure within me, although I am trying to deal with it. My biggest fear, this coming year, is that I will be waking up alone. It makes me wonder how many bodies will be fished out of the Thames, how many decaying corpses will be found in one-room flats. I'm just being realistic.

Topics: New Year, Successful, Night, Thames, Biggest Fear

The words went round and round and round in my mind and my body, until I knew they were no longer my words but something that had been carved into my heart. And now my soul was crying.

source: - Tracey Emin (2013). “Strangeland”, p.79, Hachette UK

Topics: Heart, Soul, Mind

I want to spend my life with someone and do nice things and go on adventures, read books and have nice food and celebrate things. I don't want to spend the rest of my life in the bedroom like some people who just go to bed and never get out again.

Topics: Nice, Book, Adventure

My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now.

Topics: Children, Thinking, Would Be

I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.

Topics: Apology, Paper, Tomorrow, Fish And Chips, Fish Tanks

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, ever, ever.

Topics: Life, Mistake, Drunk

I found that life has to be edited to continue.

source: - Tracey Emin, Carl Freedman, Rudolf Herman Fuchs, Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Tracey Emin: works 1963-2006”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

Topics: Found

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, I realised that there was a danger in innocence and beauty, and I could not live with both.

Topics: Age, World, Ugly, Ugly Truth

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 me through, given me faith in my own existence. But now I am approaching a point in my life where I desire more...

Topics: Art, Desire, Mountain

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 can be trusted to be the judge of that.

source: - Interview with Stephan Collishaw, www.believermag.com. April 2004.

Topics: Judging, Incidents, Trusted

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 art quite unique.

source: - "Show and Tell". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2001.

Topics: Art, Unique, Impossible

When I think about sex it makes me realise how alone I feel.

Topics: Sex, Thinking, Feels

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 own. It would be like making comparisons with Warhol.

Topics: Art, League, Way

People try constantly to use me, and I hate it.

Topics: Hate, People, Trying, Using Me

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing

Topics: Believe, Truth Is, Wells, Transient

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

Topics: Dancing, Destroying, 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

Topics: Independent, Way

Have you ever longed for someone so much, so deeply that you thought you would die? That your heart would just stop beating? I am longing now, but for whom I don't know. My whole body craves to be held. I am desperate to love and be loved. I want my mind to float into another's. I want to be set free from despair by the love I feel for another. I want to be physically part of someone else. I want to be joined. I want to be open and free to explore every part of them, as though I were exploring myself.

Topics: Heart, Mind, Despair

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.

Topics: Writing, Thinking, Ideas

There is nothing difficult about my work, and people get to hear it from me.

Topics: People, Difficult

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.

Topics: Hurtful, Mail, Stuff

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

Topics: Cat, Animal, Soul

Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.

Topics: Art, People, Done, Cubism

I like poor materials. I couldn't see myself making a bronze sculpture - it's not me. I like neon, because it's moving constantly and like drawing. The chemicals going through the neon turns me on really - it's sexy. I like fabrics, but one of the main things with objects is that I really have to love them before I can use them. I have to have the object around me a long time. The little chairs I used in my last White Cube show are ones that my dad bought for me. A sort of a psychometry with objects and things. It's like the pieces I've made are my things.

source: - Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

Topics: Sexy, Dad, Moving

I feel physically ill if I don't make work, I don't create. I don't feel very good. I don't feel right, I feel wrong.

Topics: Very Good, Ill, Feels Right

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

source: - Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

Topics: People, Laughing

When I have an exhibition, I usually arrange it so that if people want to, they can spend two hours there. That way, people who like it don't feel cheated when they go. I want them to walk into the exhibition space and look low and at other levels and angles. The same with emotions. I want them to be emotionally manipulated, to come out feeling something. I want them to laugh, smile, feel sad. Even if they feel angry, that's okay.

source: - Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

Topics: People, Laughing, Feelings

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 making them. There are a lot of artists who, no matter how hard they work in their lives, will never make anything seminal.

Topics: Art, Three, Pieces

There are things going on in galleries recently that have shocked me. What I'm going to say is really controversial, but what I find the most provocative is the commerciality of art in general. And the fact that a lot of people have forgotten what the meaning of art is and what the intention behind it is.

source: - Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

Topics: Art, People, Forgotten

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 years ago, my work wouldn't have had any currency, any popularity at all. Before in this country, you had to be accepted. You had to be part of the group. Now it's probably more trendy to have a problem.

source: - Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

Topics: Country, Artist, Problem

Criticism on my works is like this: you've worked hard all of your life, you went to Oxford, and you've done this and that, and you're an art critic. Your job is to unravel the "secret" or whatever, and you come across an entity like me. It's going to piss you off. Because there's no great secret, what you see is what you get, and anyone can understand what I'm doing. So, it's almost like I make this critic-person redundant, just by my attitude, and they resent me for that.

source: - Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

Topics: Art, Attitude, Secret

Because of the amount of press attention, people went to see this dirty bed, as if it was a freak show. But when they got there, they saw something else - the bed, stuff on the walls, whatever. For the Tate, it's the highest attendance they ever received for the Turner Prize show. There was a massive queue, and when you got into my bit, you couldn't move.

source: - Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

Topics: Wall, Dirty, Moving

My influences were from Europe from between 1900 and 1945. My favorite artists were Egon Schiele or Edvard Munch. I wasn't interested in contemporary art at all.

source: - Interview by Joan Collins, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 4, 2013.

Topics: Art, Europe, Influence, Favorite Artist

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

source: - Interview with Joan Collins, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 4, 2013.

Topics: Art, Profile, Good Things, High Profile

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, and be a lot wealthier." I'm actually making it difficult for myself. I wouldn't call it re-branding. If I get bored with my work, then other people will - it's that simple. And I'm not gonna get bored with what I'm doing. I'll struggle and fight and do new things to excite myself - and do it in my own sweet way.

source: - Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

Topics: Sweet, Struggle, Fighting

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 into something.

Topics: Art, Creative, Energy

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 something about it. When it's really out of order, or something possibly detrimental to my family, or I'm driven to such a level that I know that this can be picked up and repeated again, I will just write or e-mail the newspaper editor. So, in the next day's newspaper, it might say, "Tracey Emin says this is factually incorrect."

source: - Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

Topics: Writing, My Family, Driven

When I am ill or upset he jumps up on to the bed to curl up close beside me. But if I am in bed with a hangover he will have nothing to do with me.

Topics: Hangover, Upset, Bed

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 marry. [...] And also I'm monogamous.

source: - Interview with Joan Collins, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 4, 2013.

Topics: Thinking, Firsts, Married

If I were really, truly in love with someone who was truly in love with me, then I would get married, but that would be the only reason I'd get married.

source: - Interview with Joan Collins, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 4, 2013.

Topics: Would Be, Married, Reason

All the people in the late '80s and early '90s were really hell-bent on doing something for themselves, and they wouldn't take no for an answer. There was a lot of determination, and I was definitely part of that way of thinking.

source: - Interview with Joan Collins, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 4, 2013.

Topics: Determination, Thinking, People

The people in Miami are so different from anywhere else I've been in America. They're so down to earth, really friendly, and quite self-effacing, with a good sense of humor. I'm not saying other parts of America don't have a sense of humor, but Miami maybe has to have a really good sense of humor for lots of different reasons, and it works. It works for me.

source: - Interview with Joan Collins, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 4, 2013.

Topics: Self, America, People, Good Sense Of Humor

I'm totally monogamous when I'm in a relationship, and when I'm not in a relationship, I don't sleep around. So when I'm not with someone, I'm really on my own.

source: - Interview with Joan Collins, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 4, 2013.

Topics: Sleep, My Own

I've always said if I could own one piece it would be Vermeer's The Love Letter, and if I could put it anywhere it would be in a David Chipperfield building. I'm almost there with the building - Chipperfield is building a new house for me in London. The Vermeer is a long way off.

source: - Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

Topics: Long, House, One Piece, Love Letter

Related Authors

Ai Weiwei quotes

Ai Weiwei
Andy Warhol quotes

Andy Warhol
Anish Kapoor quotes

Anish Kapoor
Antony Gormley quotes

Antony Gormley
Ashley Bickerton quotes

Ashley Bickerton
Barbara Kruger quotes

Barbara Kruger
Billy Childish quotes

Billy Childish
Bridget Riley quotes

Bridget Riley
Cecil Balmond quotes

Cecil Balmond
Charles Saatchi quotes

Charles Saatchi
Chris Ofili quotes

Chris Ofili
Cindy Sherman quotes

Cindy Sherman
Claudio Silvestrin quotes

Claudio Silvestrin
Cornelia Parker quotes

Cornelia Parker
Damien Hirst quotes

Damien Hirst
David Hockney quotes

David Hockney
David Shrigley quotes

David Shrigley
Dom Perignon quotes

Dom Perignon
Edmund de Waal quotes

Edmund de Waal
Edvard Munch quotes

Edvard Munch
Egon Schiele quotes

Egon Schiele
Gary Hume quotes

Gary Hume
Grayson Perry quotes

Grayson Perry
Howard Hodgkin quotes

Howard Hodgkin
Jeff Koons quotes

Jeff Koons
Jenny Holzer quotes

Jenny Holzer
Jenny Saville quotes

Jenny Saville
Katie Piper quotes

Katie Piper
Kiki Smith quotes

Kiki Smith
Louise Bourgeois quotes

Louise Bourgeois
Magdalena Abakanowicz quotes

Magdalena Abakanowicz
Marc Quinn quotes

Marc Quinn
Marlene Dumas quotes

Marlene Dumas
Mat Collishaw quotes

Mat Collishaw
Matthew Collings quotes

Matthew Collings
Michael Craig-Martin quotes

Michael Craig-Martin
Michelangelo Pistoletto quotes

Michelangelo Pistoletto
Paula Rego quotes

Paula Rego
Peter Doig quotes

Peter Doig
Philippa Perry quotes

Philippa Perry
Rachel Whiteread quotes

Rachel Whiteread
Sam Taylor-Wood quotes

Sam Taylor-Wood
Stella Vine quotes

Stella Vine
Subodh Gupta quotes

Subodh Gupta
Takashi Murakami quotes

Takashi Murakami
Teresita Fernandez quotes

Teresita Fernandez
Yaacov Agam quotes

Yaacov Agam
Gavin Turk quotes

Gavin Turk
Gillian Wearing quotes

Gillian Wearing
Mona Hatoum quotes

Mona Hatoum
Richard Billingham quotes

Richard Billingham
Sarah Morris quotes

Sarah Morris
Sophie Calle quotes

Sophie Calle
Tracey Moffatt quotes

Tracey Moffatt
Brian Sewell quotes

Brian Sewell

Authors starting with Letter

Topics starting with Letter