Tracey Emin Quotes

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.

My respect for artists is very high. I think to get the most out of them, you have to liberate them. I think part of liberating them is saying, 'Come up with something brilliant, new, and fresh. Stop thinking based on what has been beat into you by executives or publishers in terms of what's going to work and what's not. Don't react, just act.'

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

If it feels like we're re-creating something rather than creating something, we don't do it.

Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.

I think if you speak to any creative person, there's something so powerful - so intoxicating, if you will - about discovering another voice, another instrument, another way of looking at things, another way of perceiving things.

I've worked with people who wanted to be creative every day: it was like a goal to arrive with something very special. Sometimes it's just disturbing, because special is good when it's needed. But when it's not needed, it's confusing, and you go away from the authenticity by a strong desire to be unique and singular.

I just want to be as creative as I possibly can.

Stay loyal to your creativity because it's a gift.

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation? Is love the only factor that is creative?

Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it.

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.

The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.

do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation

I wanna keep being productive and creative.

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see around you and that are inside of you and put them together in a way that you see fit.