The basic premise of taste, as Stephen Bayley, the cultural critic, said, is that taste is that which does not alienate your peers. Most people want to fit in with their tribe in some way or another, so they give… — 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
