Tracey Emin Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up.”
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“It pleases me that people can be interactive”
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“They grew really quickly. One minute I didn't have any ***** and the next I had the biggest ***** in the world”
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“I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective”
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“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”
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“I've been slagged off completely by the art world”
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“There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences.”
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“I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again”
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“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.”
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“The soul will always do what it needs to do,”
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“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.”
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“I'm not opposed to commerce, even though I'm an artist.”
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“I had to come to terms with my failure as an artist... I had to find a way for myself.”
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“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...”
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“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”
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“It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area”
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“One thing that success has taught me is censorship”
-- Tracey EminSource : "Show and tell". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2001.
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“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.”
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“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.”
-- Tracey EminSource : Tracey Emin (2013). “Strangeland”, p.79, Hachette UK
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“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.”
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“My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now.”
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“I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.”
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“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.”
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“I found that life has to be edited to continue.”
-- Tracey EminSource : Tracey Emin, Carl Freedman, Rudolf Herman Fuchs, Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Tracey Emin: works 1963-2006”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns
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“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.”
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“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...”
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