Part of being an artist is that you are achingly self-conscious about every aesthetic decision you make, and taste is at its most powerful when it's a default, unconscious decision because that's when all the influence of your childhood and… — 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 recipe for being a creative person. There are many people in the arts who come from perfectly happy,… — 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
