Tracey Emin

thumb|right|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. 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) External links Category:1963 births Category:Living people Category:Artists from England Category:Women from England Category:Women born in the 1960s Category:Women artists