Famous Quote 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…

— 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…

— 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 work and…

— 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 without dumbing…

— 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…

— 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.…

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Grayson Perry