We have this idea that seriousness is of higher value. But surely there is more human pleasure and delight in time spent… — 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
One of the dangers of male emotionality is that theyre not aware of it churning away beneath them the whole time. — 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 cant make art to please everybody all the time. I make art that I like. — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Well it's interesting because we use the word brand in a very derogatory way a lot of the time. I do it… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
The preparations for my very first exhibition in 1984 consisted of banging a line of nails in roughly the right place and… — 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
“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
