It’s happened time and time again, but the committee has always decided against it-the work was too conservative or didn’t fit within the budget; there are millions of different reasons. – Tracey Emin
What is truth? Truth doesn’t really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that. – Tracey Emin
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. – Tracey Emin
I’ve got to start using my brain more – I’ve got to be more ethereal and more enlightened. – Tracey Emin
I’d make a good friend, not mother. I’m too selfish. I think a lot of mothers are selfish and they end up having children, but I don’t want to put some small tiny person through that. – Tracey Emin
I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective. – Tracey Emin
I’m not trying to find another thing that’s wrong with me, but I’m such a nice person, and I have a couple of drinks and I’m really good fun and then I’m really not fun. – Tracey Emin
There’s different kinds of love, and I’d never experienced that kind of totally platonic love. All the love I’ve experienced has always been a kind of deal, and now, as I get older, I realise that there’s this other love out there. – Tracey Emin
My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now. – 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. – Tracey Emin
It’s my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there’s a lot of gray area. – Tracey Emin
I really love animals. My cat is my little soul mate. He’s not just a cat, he’s my friend. – Tracey Emin
I am fiercely independent and I probably wouldn’t be if it wasn’t for the way in which I was brought up. – Tracey Emin
I’ve got over so much. Mum wouldn’t want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again. – Tracey Emin
If I didn’t want to work for a couple of years, I wouldn’t have to-it’s a great feeling, to know I’m doing it because I want to do it. – Tracey Emin
