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
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
failure artist way
I had to come to terms with my failure as an artist... I had to find a way for myself.
art league way
There is no comparison between him and me; he developed a whole new way of making art and he's clearly in a league of his own. It would be like making comparisons with Warhol.
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.
people
Some people use just one condom, right? But we use tons.
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.
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!'