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
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 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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
“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
