Top 42 Quotes by Tracey Emin

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.

I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again.

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

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

It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area.

I didn't have an exhibition anywhere until I was 30. My first exhibition was at 30, and then for my first show in America, I'm 50. It's kind of all right: I'm just a slow burner.

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.

I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective.

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

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.