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
I'd like to think I inspire young people to be creative.
people
Some people use just one condom, right? But we use tons.
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.
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.
bronze figure good looked square wrote
In New York, working at the foundry, I was making these little figures. I desperately would like to make big figures, but I just can't do it; my hands don't do it. We were talking about making bronze plinths, and then we made one, a square one. I wrote on it, then I put a little figure on top, and it just looked really good. It worked.
means prices rarely secondary work
My work rarely comes up in secondary market, so it means that my prices stay low.
four moral three
With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely different moral at the end.
life matter sells ten work
One thing about an artist, it doesn't matter how much your work sells for in your life, it's going to sell for ten times more than that after you're dead, and that's what you have to protect.