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I feel physically ill if I don't make work, I don't create. I don't feel very good. I don't feel right, I feel wrong. — Tracey Emin

One thing that success has taught me is censorship. — Tracey Emin

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

My work rarely comes up in secondary market, so it means that my prices stay low. — Tracey Emin

I'd like to think I inspire young people to be creative. — Tracey Emin

I'm a terrible cook, but if I could cook, I would see that in art as well, it's how much creative energy you put into something. — Tracey Emin

People don't remember. Revenge is sweet. — Tracey Emin

I have hardly any friends who aren't gay. — Tracey Emin

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

I found that life has to be edited to continue. — Tracey Emin

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

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

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

A man doesn't know what it's like to be a woman; it's that simple. — Tracey Emin

The soul will always do what it needs to do, — Tracey Emin

I had to come to terms with my failure as an artist ... I had to find a way for myself. — Tracey Emin

I never grew up. — Tracey Emin

When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here. — Tracey Emin

What's really good about the word 'art' is that 'art' is a word like 'love,' or 'god,' or whatever. It transcends so many things ... — Tracey Emin

I'm out of here, I'm better than all of you. — Tracey Emin

The wheel that squeaks gets the oil. — Tracey Emin

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

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. — Tracey Emin

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

I don't believe in love, but I believe in you. — Tracey Emin

DON'T BE AFRAID TO TAKE THE PAST HEAD ON. — Tracey Emin

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

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. — Tracey Emin

I've got to start using my brain more - I've got to be more ethereal and more enlightened. — Tracey Emin

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

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

Women, at 50, are on a plateau with their careers, but later they ascend. — Tracey Emin

Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up. — Tracey Emin

For me, being an artist with a high profile is a good thing for art. — Tracey Emin

It pleases me that people can be interactive. — Tracey Emin

Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism. — Tracey Emin

I'm not opposed to commerce, even though I'm an artist. — Tracey Emin

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

I've never been married because, first of all, I don't think I've ever seriously been asked by anyone who I wanted to marry. And also I'm monogamous. — Tracey Emin

There should be something revelatory about art.
It should be totally creative and open doors
for new thoughts and experiences. — Tracey Emin

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

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

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

They grew really quickly. One minute I didn't have any tits and the next I had the biggest tits in the world — Tracey Emin

Sometimes I have the most amazing moments of clarity. Razor sharp, crystal clear. It's at these times I can see how fucking stupid I am. — Tracey Emin

When I am ill or upset he jumps up on to the bed to curl up close beside me. But if I am in bed with a hangover he will have nothing to do with me. — Tracey Emin

Sometimes i feel lonely, but it's ok — Tracey Emin

Oh Christ, I just wanted you to fuck me. And then I became greedy, I wanted you to love me. — Tracey Emin