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42 quotes by Tracey Emin

Tracey Emin's voice Sorry, your browser either has JavaScript disabled or does not have any supported player. You can download the clip or download a player to play the clip in your browser. from the BBC programme Front Row, 22 April 2013 Problems playing this file? See media help. Tracey Emin, CBE, RA (born 3 July 1963) is an English artist. She is part of the group known as Britartists or YBAs (Young British Artists). In 1997, her work...
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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... →

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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 didn't have an exhibition anywhere until I was 30. My first exhibition was at 30, and then for my first show in America, I'm 50. It's... →

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

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I never grew up.

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It pleases me that people can be interactive.

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

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

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

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

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

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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... →

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