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
artist best careful honest
I should be careful what I say here, but I don't think I'm visually the best artist in the world. I've got to be honest about this.
art desire mountain
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...
art creative energy
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.
art profile good-things
For me, being an artist with a high profile is a good thing for art.
art challenges aging
Being an artist and having to be responsible for the art that you make is really quite challenging, and as you get older it becomes more and more difficult.
art world art-world
I've been slagged off completely by the art world
artist commerce
I'm not opposed to commerce, even though I'm an artist.
art like-love art-is
What's really good about the word 'art' is that 'art' is a word like 'love,' or 'god,' or whatever. It transcends so many things...
art europe influence
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.
art three pieces
I've worked really hard. I've made three pieces of seminal art in my life. If I died tomorrow, I'd be remembered for making them. There are a lot of artists who, no matter how hard they work in their lives, will never make anything seminal.
art people done
Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.
art unique impossible
When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.
art doors creative
There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences.
running art lovers
Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up.