Tracey Emin Quotes about Art

Tracey Emin is a famous English conceptual artist who has been associated with the Young British Artists or YBAs. She is best known for controversial works that explored her sexuality and personal life. Famous Tracey Emin artworks include “Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995″, “You Forgot To Kiss My Soul”, “Hate and Power Can be a Terrible Thing”, “Psyco Slut”, “Sad Shower in New York”, “Everybodies Been There”, “Terribly Wrong”, “The Perfect Place to Grow”, and “My Bed”.

Mini biography: Born Tracey Karima Emin on the 3rd of July, 1963 in Croydon, England. Her mother was Pamela Cashin and her father was Enver Emin.

List of Famous Tracey Emin Art Quotes

What’s really good about the word ‘art’ is that ‘art’ is a word like ‘love,’ or ‘god,’ or whatever. It transcends so many things. Tracey Emin

I’m a terrible cook, but if I could cook, I would see that as art as well, it’s how much creative energy you put into something. Tracey Emin

Being an artist isn’t just about making nice things, or people patting you on the back; it’s some kind of communication, a message. Tracey Emin

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. Tracey Emin

My audience comprises everybody, not just the bourgeois. But there are people who don’t take me seriously and that annoys me. I work really, really hard. I should be bigger than this. Tracey Emin

There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally new and creative, and it should open doors for new thoughts and new experiences. Tracey Emin

If you’ve made seminal work, you never know when the next one is coming or where it’s coming from. Most artists never make a seminal piece of art in their lives, and if you’ve made two, which I have, then I’ve done all right. Tracey Emin

I know what I’m doing with my work, and that’s really a nice feeling, that I’ve created something that wasn’t there before, that’s mine. Tracey Emin

If I could spell, then I would spell correctly, but I never bothered to learn. So, rather than be inhibited and say I can’t write because I can’t spell, I just write and get on with it. 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

When I thought I might die, we had to go over all my will and redo everything really fast. And we had to get some sort of clarity about what is art and what isn’t – because could you imagine people putting stuff of mine together and saying it’s art and it definitely wasn’t! Tracey Emin

I often think that I don’t really know anything, and then, when I think about my work, and my sewing, and about my blankets, I know what I’m doing: I can cut out a sentence in felt in five minutes; it would take most people that amount of time just to cut out one letter. Tracey Emin

I say something and it’s considered to be ‘a confession’. I’m not confessing that I had cancer, I’m not confessing that I’ve got a urostomy bag. I have had cancer and I have a urostomy bag. It’s a statement. Tracey Emin

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. Tracey Emin

Tracey Emin Self Portrait Installation

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