Tracey Emin Good Quotations

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.

In New York, working at the foundry, I was making these little figures. I desperately would like to make big figures, but I just can't do it; my hands don't do it. We were talking about making bronze plinths, and then we made one, a square one. I wrote on it, then I put a little figure on top, and it just looked really good. It worked.

I feel physically ill if I don't make work, I don't create. I don't feel very good. I don't feel right, I feel wrong.

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

We have a really good life, we like it the way it is. If I keep fit and healthy and in shape, I do actually have a few good years.