Well, intellectual importance is directly linked to financial value in the art world. I mean, thats the thing you really want -… — 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… — 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… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
In the art world, originality is seen as a precious commodity and its increasingly difficult to get because the territory of art… — 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
Success in the art world means getting invitations to exhibit in some great places. I had shown in contemporary art museums in… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Nothing frustrates me about the art world. It is a lovely place. There are many daft things that amuse me about it… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
I've got a pot in my studio that is just a bitter rant against the art world. I call it my Dorian… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
A lot of people who work in computers think that the world is like them. — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Drawing will never go out of date because, you know, you've still got to have the imaginative thought. You've got to react… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Until we can insert a USB into our ear and download our thoughts, drawing remains the best way of getting visual information… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Im quite self-serving so, while going round a degree show, what I really want to find out is whats going on in… — 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
Pottery was what sandal-wearing, windchime-lovers did. Art is sensitive to areas of visual culture that havent yet been colonised by the art… — 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
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
“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
