Tracey Emin Quotes - Page 2

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

  Tracey Emin

  Artist, Commerce

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

  Tracey Emin

  Failure, Artist, Way

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• 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.

  Tracey Emin

  Sweet, Struggle, Fighting

  Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

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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.

  Tracey Emin

  Art, Desire, Mountain

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

  Tracey Emin

  Art, Profile, Good Things

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

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• 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

  Independent, Way, Fierce

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• 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

  Hurtful, Letters, Mail

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• I've been slagged off completely by the art world and I don't know whether fancy being slagged off by the literary world as well. It's just too much.

  Tracey Emin

  Art, World, Art World

  Interview with Stephan Collishaw, www.believermag.com. April 2004.

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• One thing that success has taught me is censorship.

  Tracey Emin

  Taught, Censorship, One Thing

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

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• 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.

  Tracey Emin

  Art, Creative, Energy

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• 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

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  Interview with Stephan Collishaw, www.believermag.com. April 2004.

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• 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.

  Tracey Emin

  Art, Europe, Influence

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

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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.

  Tracey Emin

  Couple, Years, Feelings

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

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

  Tracey Emin

  Children, Thinking, Would Be

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

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• 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."

  Tracey Emin

  Writing, My Family, Driven

  Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

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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

  Tracey Emin

  Couple, Fun, Nice

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

  Tracey Emin

  World, Next, Minutes

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

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• 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.

  Tracey Emin

  Hangover, Upset, Bed

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

  Tracey Emin

  Believe, Truth Is, Wells

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

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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.

  Tracey Emin

  Nice, Book, Adventure

  "The Saturday interview: Tracey Emin". Interview with Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2012.

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

  Tracey Emin

  Sex, Thinking, Feels

  "Emin Reveals Naked Self-portraits". news.bbc.co.uk. May 27, 2005.

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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.

  Tracey Emin

  Different, Kind, Platonic Love

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• 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.

  Tracey Emin

  Thinking, Firsts, Married

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

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• 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.

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  Would Be, Married, Reason

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

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• 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.

  Tracey Emin

  Determination, Thinking, People

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

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