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
They look at someone like me, and I just really get up their nose. I really wind them up.
I've got to start using my brain more - I've got to be more ethereal and more enlightened.
A man doesn't know what it's like to be a woman; it's that simple.
good selfish small tiny
I'd make a good friend, not mother. I'm too selfish. I think a lot of mothers are selfish and they end up having children, but I don't want to put some small tiny person through that.
ageing bother care suddenly supposed worry
I know I'm supposed to say ageing doesn't bother me, then suddenly you're like, 'Yeah, I care about it, I really worry about it. I'm getting old. I'm old!'
love realise totally
There's different kinds of love, and I'd never experienced that kind of totally platonic love. All the love I've experienced has always been a kind of deal, and now, as I get older, I realise that there's this other love out there.
people
Some people use just one condom, right? But we use tons.
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