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Tracey Emin Quotes: Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.
         

Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.


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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.



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The words went round and round and round in my mind and my body, until I knew they were no longer my words but something that had been carved into my heart. And now my soul was crying.



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There is nothing difficult about my work, and people get to hear it from me.



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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.



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I'm not opposed to commerce, even though I'm an artist.





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