Beauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days. — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
I've got a pot in my studio that is just a bitter rant against the art world. I call it my Dorian… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Nothing frustrates me about the art world. It is a lovely place. There are many daft things that amuse me about it… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
I always think that painters are fighting over the last original brushstroke. To find your own voice is incredibly hard. — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Im a maximalist, so Im probably not very elegant. My art is not a coup de grce. Its a war of attrition. — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
I cant make art to please everybody all the time. I make art that I like. — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
It is true that there are not many smiling faces in modern art galleries. Happy art is much harder to make. Art… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
As human beings, we are addicted to novelty. Part of being stylish is surprisingness. Part of being an artist is surprisingness. If… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
I was once judging some prisoner art, and you wouldnt believe the number of eagles and tigers and symbols of freedom and… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Security and care of the objects is paramount. Arty composition comes after everything is safe from greasy fingers, humidity or excess light. — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
And it's been one of my big sort of campaigns throughout my career, really, is to sort of make art accessible but… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
We live in a media saturated world. I'm sure artists of the past would have dealt with it in just the same… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Desmond Morris says that men make better artists because they are greater risk-takers; on the other hand, he thinks that women are… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
How art works is really interesting. It comes from our unconscious, a lot of it. And were communicating in ways were not… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Part of being an artist is that you are achingly self-conscious about every aesthetic decision you make, and taste is at its… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
I embrace the middle ground, because curiously it has more edge to it than the cutting edge. It has been a weirdly… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Contemporary art often plays to the part of us that is very uncomfortable with not being sure, that cannot maintain a state… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Until we can insert a USB into our ear and download our thoughts, drawing remains the best way of getting visual information… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
I think sometimes in the art world theres an implication that you need an entry-level education to walk through the door of… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Artists should imprint their handwriting on the work, because if they give a piece to a fabrication studio, the craftsmen there may… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
In the art world, originality is seen as a precious commodity and its increasingly difficult to get because the territory of art… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
I tick so many boxes. Thats why I get a lot of gigs - because I can do the lectures, I can… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Early on, my way of teasing the art world was by playing at being accessible. Like making pottery: I thought people would… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Art is a process. Its expressing yourself and doing something, and throwing yourself into it and getting better at it and trying… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
The art world would have you believe that anything can be art. But, of course, there's actually many things that aren't art.… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Self-consciousness is almost the biggest thing you have to deal with as an artist. That's why many artists crash and burn, because… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
There are some very unsavoury aspects of art dealing that go with the unregulated nature of the market but its all part… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Drawing will never go out of date because, you know, you've still got to have the imaginative thought. You've got to react… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
If you want to be successful in the art world you've got to look to the art world; you don't make it… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
I hate it when people say that art shouldnt be a commodity. A lot of the rooms in museums, and all the… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
As an artist I'm very aware of what I call Picasso-napkin syndrome - I've got this 20th century version of the midas… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
I like the idea of my art being a covetable object; I like preciousness. A lot of art seems to flaunt its… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
“Because I am a transvestite, people often assume that this gives me a special insight into the opposite gender. But this is rubbish: how… — Grayson Perry Copy Share
We have this idea that seriousness is of higher value. But surely there is more human pleasure and delight in time spent with humour… — Grayson Perry Copy Share
Well, within my business, visual art, the intake is 75 per cent female and yet you look at who has showed their work and… — Grayson Perry Copy Share
And it's been one of my big sort of campaigns throughout my career, really, is to sort of make art accessible but without dumbing… — Grayson Perry Copy Share
The basic premise of taste, as Stephen Bayley, the cultural critic, said, is that taste is that which does not alienate your peers. Most… — Grayson Perry Copy Share
Well, intellectual importance is directly linked to financial value in the art world. I mean, thats the thing you really want - museum quality.… — Grayson Perry Copy Share
Some people will have working-class, front-room grandma taste that is better than other people's. I went to stately homes that are a bit duff,… — Grayson Perry Copy Share
You cant be an artist without going to art school. Its impossible. Art schools like being plunged into a sheep dip that inoculates you… — Grayson Perry Copy Share
You don't work in a vacuum. If you're a visual artist you work in a visual culture. If you're a pop musician you listen… — Grayson Perry Copy Share
I was very excited when the Holburne Museum proposed a show of my ceramics from the 80s and early 90s as it would also… — Grayson Perry Copy Share
My tapestries are woven on a computer-controlled loom. I design them on Photoshop. I recently did some digitally-routed woodcuts because I wanted the woodcut… — Grayson Perry Copy Share
I haven't been to Oxbridge. I haven't even been to a London art school. My qualifications are pretty meagre for such a brief, but… — Grayson Perry Copy Share
Art is a process. Its expressing yourself and doing something, and throwing yourself into it and getting better at it and trying again. Thats… — Grayson Perry Copy Share
