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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.

— Tracey Emin

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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.

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.

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