Tracey Emin
Tracey Emin
Tracey Emin, CBE, RA is an English contemporary artist known for her autobiographical and confessional artwork. Emin produces work in a variety of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, film, photography, neon text and sewn appliqué. Once the "enfant terrible" of the Young British Artists in the 1980s, Tracey Emin is now a Royal Academician of the Royal Academy of Arts...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPop Artist
Date of Birth3 July 1963
Tracey Emin quotes about
new-year successful night
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.
failure artist way
I had to come to terms with my failure as an artist... I had to find a way for myself.
self america 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.
very-good ill feels-right
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.
hate people trying
People try constantly to use me, and I hate it.
exhibitions would-be my-one-and-only
I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective
determination thinking people
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.
memories years moments
It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area
taught censorship one-thing
One thing that success has taught me is censorship
oil wheels
The wheel that squeaks gets the oil.
couple years feelings
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
independent way ifs
I am fiercely independent and I probably wouldn't be if it wasn't for the way in which I was brought up
gay
I have hardly any friends who aren't gay
lonely sometimes feels
Sometimes i feel lonely, but it's ok