131 Quotes by Tracey Emin

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

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

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.

I’m not opposed to commerce, even though I’m an artist.

Dreams don’t have time. Neither does sleep, nor death. That’s why it is sometimes good to wear a watch.

I have hardly any friends who aren’t gay.

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.

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.