Tracey Emin

Dame Tracey Emin DBE (born 3 July 1963) is a British artist, and one of the Young British Artists.

Quotes

 * I want to be with my friends. I'm drunk. I want to phone my mum. She's going to be embarrassed by this conversation. I don't care. I don't give a fuck about it.
 * Clare Longrigg, "Sixty Minutes, Noise: by art's bad girl", The Guardian, (1997-12-04)
 * Said by Emin, apparently drunk, during a live Channel 4 programme. The remark made national news and catapulted her to overnight fame.


 * Your paintings are stuck, you are stuck! Stuck! Stuck! Stuck!
 * Milner, Frank (ed), The Stuckists Punk Victorian, [National Museums Liverpool 2004], p. 134
 * Said to ex-boyfriend, Billy Childish, as quoted in the Stuckists manifesto (1999), giving Charles Thomson the idea for the name Stuckism.


 * 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.
 * "Artist Emin leaves us baffled" BBC, (2001-12-06)
 * Emin was given the Plain English Campaign's "Foot in Mouth" award for this remark, made in a newspaper interview.


 * There is no comparison between him and me; he developed a whole new way of making art and he's clearly in a league of his own. It would be like making comparisons with Warhol.
 * The Independent on Sunday 2005-03-12. Accessed 2006-03-19.
 * On artist Damien Hirst.


 * When I think about sex it makes me realise how alone I feel.
 * "Emin reveals naked self portraits" BBC, (2005-05-27)