131 Quotes by Tracey Emin

I have hardly any friends who aren't gay

I've been making bronze sculptures for a long time. My sculptures are wholly unsuccessful and uncommercial. No one is even the remotest bit interested in them. So it's almost like my hobby.

When you're 20 or 30, looking ahead, you see these benchmarks for relationships, career, ambition, sexuality, and they went off into infinity. When you get to 50, you look at what's ahead of you, and there's an end. It goes into a nothingness, a void.

I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.

People try constantly to use me, and I hate it.

When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here.

Women, at 50, are on a plateau with their careers, but later they ascend.

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.

It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me