Zitat des Tages von Tracey Emin:
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.
I've been slagged off completely by the art world.
There's different kinds of love, and I'd never experienced that kind of totally platonic love. All the love I've experienced has always been a kind of deal, and now, as I get older, I realise that there's this other love out there.
I'm out of here, I'm better than all of you.
I never grew up.
It pleases me that people can be interactive.
Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.
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.
I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.
When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here.
It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me.
It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area.
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.
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.
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.
With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely different moral at the end.
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.
One thing that success has taught me is censorship.
I want to spend my life with someone and do nice things and go on adventures, read books and have nice food and celebrate things. I don't want to spend the rest of my life in the bedroom like some people who just go to bed and never get out again.
There is nothing difficult about my work, and people get to hear it from me.
They look at someone like me, and I just really get up their nose. I really wind them up.
I have hardly any friends who aren't gay.
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.
People try constantly to use me, and I hate it.
Women, at 50, are on a plateau with their careers, but later they ascend.
I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective.
One thing about an artist, it doesn't matter how much your work sells for in your life, it's going to sell for ten times more than that after you're dead, and that's what you have to protect.
My work rarely comes up in secondary market, so it means that my prices stay low.
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 hands don't do it. We were talking about making bronze plinths, and then we made one, a square one. I wrote on it, then I put a little figure on top, and it just looked really good. It worked.
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 kind of all right: I'm just a slow burner.