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
couple fun nice
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
next world grew
They grew really quickly. One minute I didn't have any tits and the next I had the biggest tits in the world
hurtful mail stuff
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.
sleep my-own
I'm totally monogamous when I'm in a relationship, and when I'm not in a relationship, I don't sleep around. So when I'm not with someone, I'm really on my own.
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.
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.
taught censorship one-thing
One thing that success has taught me is censorship
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
gay
I have hardly any friends who aren't gay
destroying-me dancing destroying
It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me
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.
children
When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here.