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

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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Video Artist
Tracey Karima Emin
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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.
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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'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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There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences.
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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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All the people in the late '80s and early '90s were really hell-bent on doing something for themselves, and they wouldn't take no for an answer. There was a lot of determination, and I was definitely part of that way of thinking.
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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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There is nothing difficult about my work, and people get to hear it from me.
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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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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.
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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.
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People don't remember. Revenge is sweet.
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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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One thing that success has taught me is censorship.
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I found that life has to be edited to continue.
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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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It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me
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The reason why I'm popular as an artist in this country is because it suits the psyche of the nation at this time. Ten years ago, my work wouldn't have had any currency, any popularity at all. Before in this country, you had to be accepted. You had to be part of the group. Now it's probably more trendy to have a problem.
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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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