Tracey Emin quotes

Tracey Emin is an English sculptor and contemporary artist known for her confessional and autobiographical artwork. Her provocative installations and neon pieces have made a significant impact on the British art scene. She continues to explore themes of identity, vulnerability, and personal experience in her work. Here are 38 of her quotes:

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

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When I think about sex it makes me realise how alone I feel.

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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.

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It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area.

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I really love animals. My cat is my little soul mate. He's not just a cat, he's my friend.

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Your paintings are stuck, you are stuck! Stuck! Stuck! Stuck!

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There is nothing difficult about my work, and people get to hear it from me.

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There's so much stuff said about me that's not true, so now if something is hurtful and wrong, I send an e-mail or letter immediately, saying, This is not true.

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If I didn't want to work for a couple of years, I wouldn't have to-it's a great feeling, to know I'm doing it because I want to do it.

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My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now.

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Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.

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People try constantly to use me, and I hate it.

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The words went round and round and round in my mind and my body, until I knew they were no longer my words but something that had been carved into my heart. And now my soul was crying.

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All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever.

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I am fiercely independent and I probably wouldn't be if it wasn't for the way in which I was brought up.

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The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess.

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It pleases me that people can be interactive.

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People don't remember. Revenge is sweet.

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I have hardly any friends who aren't gay.

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It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me.

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I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective.

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I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again.

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