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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.

— Tracey Emin

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Said by Emin, apparently drunk, during a live Channel 4 programme. The remark made national news and catapulted her to overnight fame.

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When I think about sex it makes me realise how alone I feel.

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.

Your paintings are stuck, you are stuck! Stuck! Stuck! Stuck!

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.

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.

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