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Tracey Emin Biography

Tracey Emin, CBE, RA (/ˈɛmɪn/; born 3 July 1963) is an English contemporary artist known for her autobiographical and confessional artwork. Emin produces work in a variety of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, film, photography, neon text and sewn appliqué. Once the "enfant terrible" of the Young British Artists in the 1980s, Tracey Emin is now a Royal Academician of the Royal Academy of Arts.

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I really love animals. My cat is my little soul mate. He's not just a cat, he's my friend.

Animal, Animals, Cat, Love, Mate, Soul

When I am ill or upset he jumps up on to the bed to curl up close beside me. But if I am in bed with a hangover he will have nothing to do with me.

Bed, Hangover, Jumps, Upset

I found that life has to be edited to continue.

Continue, Edited, Found, Life

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.

Art, League, Making, Way, Whole, Would Be

The soul will always do what it needs to do.

Needs, Soul

I had become conscious of my physicality, aware of my presence and open to the ugly truths of the world. At the age of thirteen, I realised that there was a danger in innocence and beauty, and I could not live with both.

Age, Beauty, Live, Ugly, World

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

Children, Destroying, Life, Thinking, Thinks, Would Be

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing. . .

Believe, Maybe, Thing, Truth, Truth Is, Wells

One thing that success has taught me is censorship.

Censorship, One Thing, Success, Taught, Thing

I've always said if I could own one piece it would be Vermeer's The Love Letter, and if I could put it anywhere it would be in a David Chipperfield building. I'm almost there with the building - Chipperfield is building a new house for me in London. The Vermeer is a long way off.

House, Letter, Long, Love, One Piece, Way

There are things going on in galleries recently that have shocked me. What I'm going to say is really controversial, but what I find the most provocative is the commerciality of art in general. And the fact that a lot of people have forgotten what the meaning of art is and what the intention behind it is.

Art, Fact, Forgotten, People, Shocked

It pleases me that people can be interactive

Interactive, People, Please, Please Me, Pleases

Have you ever longed for someone so much, so deeply that you thought you would die? That your heart would just stop beating? I am longing now, but for whom I don't know. My whole body craves to be held. I am desperate to love and be loved. I want my mind to float into another's. I want to be set free from despair by the love I feel for another. I want to be physically part of someone else. I want to be joined. I want to be open and free to explore every part of them, as though I were exploring myself.

Craves, Despair, Exploring, Heart, Mind, Thought

I've never been married because, first of all, I don't think I've ever seriously been asked by anyone who I wanted to marry. [. . . ] And also I'm monogamous.

Asked, Firsts, Married, Seriously, Think, Thinking

My influences were from Europe from between 1900 and 1945. My favorite artists were Egon Schiele or Edvard Munch. I wasn't interested in contemporary art at all.

1945, Art, Europe, Influence, Influences, Munch

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.

Couple, Feelings, Know, Work, Years

For me, being an artist with a high profile is a good thing for art.

Art, Good Things, Profile, Thing

Theres different kinds of love, and Id never experienced that kind of totally platonic love. All the love Ive experienced has always been a kind of deal, and now, as I get older, I realise that theres this other love out there.

Different, Kind, Kinds, Platonic Love, Realise, Totally

I know people went to laugh at my bed and to jeer at it. Still, at least they actually went to see it.

Bed, Jeer, Know, Laughing, People

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

Dancing, Destroying, Destroying Me

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