Grayson Perry

“Because I am a transvestite, people often assume that this gives me a special insight into the opposite gender. But this is…

— Grayson Perry

We have this idea that seriousness is of higher value. But surely there is more human pleasure and delight in time spent…

— Grayson Perry

“An artist's job is to make new clichés.”

— Grayson Perry

Well, within my business, visual art, the intake is 75 per cent female and yet you look at who has showed their…

— Grayson Perry

For me, earnestness is the greatest crime an Englishman can commit.

— 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…

— Grayson Perry

The basic premise of taste, as Stephen Bayley, the cultural critic, said, is that taste is that which does not alienate your…

— Grayson Perry

Well, intellectual importance is directly linked to financial value in the art world. I mean, thats the thing you really want -…

— 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…

— Grayson Perry

You cant be an artist without going to art school. Its impossible. Art schools like being plunged into a sheep dip that…

— 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…

— Grayson Perry

I was very excited when the Holburne Museum proposed a show of my ceramics from the 80s and early 90s as it…

— 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…

— 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…

— Grayson Perry

Art is a process. Its expressing yourself and doing something, and throwing yourself into it and getting better at it and trying…

— Grayson Perry

“If George Osborne had dressed up as a cross between Flashman and the Grim Reaper instead of a business suit when he…

— Grayson Perry

My father was a keen photographer; he had his own darkroom.

— Grayson Perry

I've always liked working with an archetypal design, something functional.

— Grayson Perry

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

I think Im addicted to periods of doubt and low confidence. I think you should worry if you dont have them because…

— Grayson Perry

Gender is great, and Im happy for anybody to celebrate wherever they are on the gender spectrum. Its got amazingly much easier…

— Grayson Perry

My mother is a strong person. She's funny but volatile, with a pretty bad temper.

— Grayson Perry

Fashion is a language, and therefore says something about politics, and certain fashion styles get associated with certain political standpoints.

— Grayson Perry

“The sound a box of Lego makes is the noise of a child's mind working, looking for the right piece. Shake it,…

— Grayson Perry

I think sometimes in the art world theres an implication that you need an entry-level education to walk through the door of…

— Grayson Perry