Tracey Emin Quotes

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. Our obligation is to make money.

Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his 'death,' whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!

What matters here are the works - finally without them his life would be uninteresting. What matters, that is, are the astonishing things that he left behind. If we can get the life in relation to the works, then it can take off.

People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.

And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.

I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.

I've achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them.

I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.

When a writer makes something, it's theirs forever. That is the magic for me.

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

I truly believe the art's larger than the artist. Who cares about John Steinbeck? I care about the Joad family.

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.

One thing I've learned, and I don't really blame anybody for this: most people who have a lot of money are the people that want to make money more than anyone. I've seen it with athletes, I've seen it with musicians, you know?

Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.

The problem is, how can we help them get rich and stay rich ourselves?

You can't look at the dollar and say, 'I'm not what I dreamed of being unless I do this type of movie and it's a blockbuster that gives me this amount of dollars.' That's not good.

For me, money has never been an indicator. And it is very sad that each and every film these days is being judged by the money that it makes. It's a world that I don't want to be a part of, and I try and stay away from that.

Yes, money is important. But it's all about the creative process.

I'm not totally comfortable with the ways in which our culture monetises art and literature.

A lot of the most prolific painters died broke and weren't appreciated in their time. I'm trying to remember who exactly I was thinking of - like Rembrandt, van Gogh or Gauguin. Some of those guys, they got whole floors of museums to themselves but weren't really appreciated in their time at all.

Every musician that dies is the greatest ever when they die. I never heard a David Bowie record in my life. But for whatever reason, he's one of the greatest of all time now. You know why? 'Cause he's dead.