Tracey Emin Quotes

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.
Tracey Emin

Life, Mistakes, Drunk

People don't remember. Revenge is sweet.
Tracey Emin

Revenge, Remember, Sweet

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.
Tracey Emin

Truth, Experience, Judge

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

Hate, Try, Constantly

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.
Tracey Emin

True, Saying, Said

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

Tomorrow, Ask, Apology

I am fiercely independent and I probably wouldn't be if it wasn't for the way in which I was brought up.
Tracey Emin

Brought, Fiercely

I have hardly any friends who aren't gay.
Tracey Emin

Gay, Friends, Hardly

I never grew up.
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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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Thought, Call, Decided

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.
Tracey Emin

Good, Nice, Fun

I'm out of here, I'm better than all of you.
Tracey Emin

I've been slagged off completely by the art world.
Tracey Emin

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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Life, Again, Fragile

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.
Tracey Emin

Work, Great, Feeling

It pleases me that people can be interactive.
Tracey Emin

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

Dancing, Destroying

It's happened time and time again, but the committee has always decided against it-the work was too conservative or didn't fit within the budget; there are millions of different reasons.
Tracey Emin

Work, Time, Different

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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Moment, Between, Memory

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

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

Life, Children, Wanted

One thing that success has taught me is censorship.
Tracey Emin

Success, Censorship, Taught

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.
Tracey Emin

Down, Write, Idea

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

Work, Nothing, Difficult

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

Someone, Wind, Nose

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Artist

Born: July 3, 1963

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