Top 25 Tracey Emin Quotes

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

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

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

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

It pleases me that people can be interactive.

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

I’ve got to start using my brain more – I’ve got to be more ethereal and more enlightened.

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

When you’re 20 or 30, looking ahead, you see these benchmarks for relationships, career, ambition, sexuality, and they went off into infinity. When you get to 50, you look at what’s ahead of you, and there’s an end. It goes into a nothingness, a void.

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

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

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

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 never grew up.

I know I’m supposed to say ageing doesn’t bother me, then suddenly you’re like, ‘Yeah, I care about it, I really worry about it. I’m getting old. I’m old!’

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.