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.
Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up. - Tracey Emin
Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up.
- Tracey Emin
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. - Tracey Emin
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.
There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences. - Tracey Emin
There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences.
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. - Tracey Emin
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.
When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique. - Tracey Emin
When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.
Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism. - Tracey Emin
Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.
When I have an exhibition, I usually arrange it so that if people want to, they can spend two hours there. That way, people who like it don't feel ch… - Tracey Emin
When I have an exhibition, I usually arrange it so that if people want to, they can spend two hours there. That way, people who like it don't feel ch…
The soul will always do what it needs to do. - Tracey Emin
The soul will always do what it needs to do.
Criticism on my works is like this: you've worked hard all of your life, you went to Oxford, and you've done this and that, and you're an art critic.… - Tracey Emin
Criticism on my works is like this: you've worked hard all of your life, you went to Oxford, and you've done this and that, and you're an art critic.…
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