Tracey Emin Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“I didn't have an exhibition anywhere until I was 30. My first exhibition was at 30, and then for my first show in America, I'm 50. It's kind of all right: I'm just a slow burner.”

“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.”

“One thing about an artist, it doesn't matter how much your work sells for in your life, it's going to sell for ten times more than that after you're dead, and that's what you have to protect.”

“The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess.”

“With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely different moral at the end.”

“I never grew up.”

“It pleases me that people can be interactive.”

“I'd like to think I inspire young people to be creative.”

“My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now.”

“My work rarely comes up in secondary market, so it means that my prices stay low.”