Well, within my business, visual art, the intake is 75 per cent female and yet you look at who has showed their… — 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
Well, intellectual importance is directly linked to financial value in the art world. I mean, thats the thing you really want -… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
You cant be an artist without going to art school. Its impossible. Art schools like being plunged into a sheep dip that… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
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… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
I haven't been to Oxbridge. I haven't even been to a London art school. My qualifications are pretty meagre for such a… — 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
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
“The sound a box of Lego makes is the noise of a child's mind working, looking for the right piece. Shake it,… — 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
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
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
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 think I grew up in an 'acultural' household - no books, no paintings, never went to an art gallery. I say… — 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
It's interesting that female artists are underrepresented in exhibitions. That may be down to the fact that the people in power in… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
I operate on anger quite a lot. Its what gets me up in the morning to make art quite often. Well, irritation… — 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
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
Success in the art world means getting invitations to exhibit in some great places. I had shown in contemporary art museums in… — 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
I think that democracy has a lowest common denominator thing going on, so it might be the best of a bad bunch… — 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
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 bit duff,… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
