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> [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 to pop music. If you're an artist you should know about the art world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grayson-perry/you-don-t-work-in-a-vacuum-if-you-re-a-visual-artist-you-work-in-a/)

[Grayson Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grayson-perry/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81f/grayson-perry-3535_art_you-don-t-work-in-a-vacuum-if-you-re-a-v_247389.jpg)

## More by Grayson Perry

> [“Because I am a transvestite, people often assume that this gives me a special insight into the opposite gender. But this is rubbish: how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grayson-perry/because-i-am-a-transvestite-people-often-assume-that-this-gives-me-a/)

[Grayson Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grayson-perry/)

> [We have this idea that seriousness is of higher value. But surely there is more human pleasure and delight in time spent with humour…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grayson-perry/we-have-this-idea-that-seriousness-is-of-higher-value-but-surely/)

[Grayson Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grayson-perry/)

> [“An artist's job is to make new clichés.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grayson-perry/an-artist-s-job-is-to-make-new-clich-s/)

[Grayson Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grayson-perry/)

> [Well, within my business, visual art, the intake is 75 per cent female and yet you look at who has showed their work and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grayson-perry/well-within-my-business-visual-art-the-intake-is-75-per-cent-female/)

[Grayson Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grayson-perry/)

> [For me, earnestness is the greatest crime an Englishman can commit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grayson-perry/for-me-earnestness-is-the-greatest-crime-an-englishman-can-commit/)

[Grayson Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grayson-perry/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grayson-perry/and-it-s-been-one-of-my-big-sort-of-campaigns-throughout-my-career/)

[Grayson Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grayson-perry/)

> [The basic premise of taste, as Stephen Bayley, the cultural critic, said, is that taste is that which does not alienate your peers. Most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grayson-perry/the-basic-premise-of-taste-as-stephen-bayley-the-cultural-critic-said/)

[Grayson Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grayson-perry/)

> [Well, intellectual importance is directly linked to financial value in the art world. I mean, thats the thing you really want - museum quality.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grayson-perry/well-intellectual-importance-is-directly-linked-to-financial-value-in/)

[Grayson Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grayson-perry/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grayson-perry/some-people-will-have-working-class-front-room-grandma-taste-that-is/)

[Grayson Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grayson-perry/)

> [You cant be an artist without going to art school. Its impossible. Art schools like being plunged into a sheep dip that inoculates you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grayson-perry/you-cant-be-an-artist-without-going-to-art-school-its-impossible-art/)

[Grayson Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grayson-perry/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grayson-perry/you-don-t-work-in-a-vacuum-if-you-re-a-visual-artist-you-work-in-a/)

[Grayson Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grayson-perry/)

> [I was very excited when the Holburne Museum proposed a show of my ceramics from the 80s and early 90s as it would also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grayson-perry/i-was-very-excited-when-the-holburne-museum-proposed-a-show-of-my/)

[Grayson Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grayson-perry/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grayson-perry/my-tapestries-are-woven-on-a-computer-controlled-loom-i-design-them/)

[Grayson Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grayson-perry/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grayson-perry/i-haven-t-been-to-oxbridge-i-haven-t-even-been-to-a-london-art-school/)

[Grayson Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grayson-perry/)

> [Art is a process. Its expressing yourself and doing something, and throwing yourself into it and getting better at it and trying again. Thats…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grayson-perry/art-is-a-process-its-expressing-yourself-and-doing-something-and/)

[Grayson Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grayson-perry/)

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