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
plateau women
Women, at 50, are on a plateau with their careers, but later they ascend.
children
When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here.
few fit good healthy
We have a really good life, we like it the way it is. If I keep fit and healthy and in shape, I do actually have a few good years.
bit difficult macho society
The land's really beautiful, it's just that it's a bit of a macho society to say the least and it's very difficult to get things done.
children thinking would-be
My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now.
oil wheels
The wheel that squeaks gets the oil.
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
destroying-me dancing destroying
It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me
lonely sometimes feels
Sometimes i feel lonely, but it's ok
gay
I have hardly any friends who aren't gay
sorry apology paper
I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.
soul needs
The soul will always do what it needs to do,
different kind platonic-love
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.
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