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" 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. "

Tracey Emin

Work

Dead

Life

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" One thing that success has taught me is censorship. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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Nothing

Work

" 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. "

" I've been making bronze sculptures for a long time. My sculptures are wholly unsuccessful and uncommercial. No one is even the remotest bit interested in them. So it's almost like my hobby. "

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Long

Been

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" 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. "

" People try constantly to use me, and I hate it. "

" They look at someone like me, and I just really get up their nose. I really wind them up. "

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Look

" 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. "

" A man doesn't know what it's like to be a woman; it's that simple. "

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Know

Man

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

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My Life

Life

" I have hardly any friends who aren't gay. "

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" 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. "

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Nice

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" I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper. "