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Tracey Emin
July 3, 1963 -
Nationality: English
Category: Artist
Subcategory: English Artist

I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.

   

It's happened time and time again, but the committee has always decided against it-the work was too conservative or didn't fit within the budget; there are millions of different reasons.

   

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.

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

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.

   

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

   

People don't remember. Revenge is sweet.

   

When I got the phrase media whore thrown in my face last year, I thought, Oh my God, if you only knew.

   

I'm not trying to find another thing that's wrong with me, but I'm such a nice person, and I have a couple of drinks and I'm really good fun and then I'm really not fun.

   

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

   

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

   

I have hardly any friends who aren't gay.

   

Some people use just one condom, right? But we use tons.

   

I've been slagged off completely by the art world.

   

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

   

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.

   

They look at someone like me, and I just really get up their nose. I really wind them up.

   

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

   

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