A lot of people who work in computers think that the world is like them. — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
I dont care how Ill be remembered after death. For all I know people will put all my work in a skip… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
People are always happy to tell you what they think of as bad taste, but when you ask them what they really… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Road rage is my vice. Im a cyclist and motorcyclist, and people who dont indicate drive me nuts. — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
I always say to people if you want to see what Britain looks like, watch Gogglebox. It's brilliant and funny and warm… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
I think people mistakenly get their chaos muddled up with their creativity. Provided you know what your issues are, they're not going… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
I think of colour sense as the visual equivalent of perfect pitch. Some people can just reach into a pile of swatches… — 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
If Id had a happy childhood I definitely wouldnt have become the person I am - although a bad childhood isnt a… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
I hate to tell this to people but most gods were invented by someone. I'm sorry. It's just that I'm in the… — 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
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
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… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
I think its dangerous when people think theyre being expressive. Yuck. Its like people who say theyre spiritual, innit. You make the… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
The basic premise of taste, as Stephen Bayley, the cultural critic, said, is that taste is that which does not alienate your… — 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
