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

There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences.

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

- 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…

- Tracey Emin

The soul will always do what it needs to do.

- 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.…

- Tracey Emin