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
people
Some people use just one condom, right? But we use tons.
people
I'd like to think I inspire young people to be creative.
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.
hate people trying
People try constantly to use me, and I hate it.
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.
please-me people please
It pleases me that people can be interactive
sweet revenge people
People don't remember. Revenge is sweet.
people difficult
There is nothing difficult about my work, and people get to hear it from me.
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.
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.
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.
ahead goes
When you're 20 or 30, looking ahead, you see these benchmarks for relationships, career, ambition, sexuality, and they went off into infinity. When you get to 50, you look at what's ahead of you, and there's an end. It goes into a nothingness, a void.
almost bit bronze sculptures time wholly
I've been making bronze sculptures for a long time. My sculptures are wholly unsuccessful and uncommercial. No one is even the remotest bit interested in them. So it's almost like my hobby.
I'm out of here, I'm better than all of you.