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
I cant make art to please everybody all the time. I make art that I like. — 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
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 enjoyed the thought that hovering behind my work is a unifying belief system, just as there is behind Egyptian or Ancient… — 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
Beauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days. — 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
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
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
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
Pottery was what sandal-wearing, windchime-lovers did. Art is sensitive to areas of visual culture that havent yet been colonised by the art… — 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
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
I was sort of mute when I went to art school. There were two girls there who thought I was German because… — 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
From birth until I went to art college when I was 19, there are perhaps less than a dozen photographs of me. — 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
Artists have their very distinctive voices that theyve developed over a long period. It takes time to find your voice, your vocabulary… — 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
“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
