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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

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Tracey Emin
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: July 3
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Conceptual Artist
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Photographer
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Video Artist
Tracey Karima Emin
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I've worked really hard. I've made three pieces of seminal art in my life. If I died tomorrow, I'd be remembered for making them. There are a lot of artists who, no matter how hard they work in their lives, will never make anything seminal.
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One thing that success has taught me is censorship.
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I've been slagged off completely by the art world and I don't know whether fancy being slagged off by the literary world as well. It's just too much.
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There is nothing difficult about my work, and people get to hear it from me.
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It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me
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I had become conscious of my physicality, aware of my presence and open to the ugly truths of the world. At the age of thirteen, I realised that there was a danger in innocence and beauty, and I could not live with both.
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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.
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There are things going on in galleries recently that have shocked me. What I'm going to say is really controversial, but what I find the most provocative is the commerciality of art in general. And the fact that a lot of people have forgotten what the meaning of art is and what the intention behind it is.
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Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing...
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I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.
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The words went round and round and round in my mind and my body, until I knew they were no longer my words but something that had been carved into my heart. And now my soul was crying.
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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.
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There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences.
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The soul will always do what it needs to do.
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I found that life has to be edited to continue.
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There is no comparison between him and me he developed a whole new way of making art and he's clearly in a league of his own. It would be like making comparisons with Warhol.
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If I were really, truly in love with someone who was truly in love with me, then I would get married, but that would be the only reason I'd get married.
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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
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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.
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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.
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