Grayson Perry Quotes

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Grayson Perry

Profession : Artist

Birth : March 24, 1960

I think sometimes in the art world theres an implication that you need an entry-level education to walk through the door of a gallery. But you dont. The learning experience actually happens once youre in the gallery.

Grayson Perry

The best view is always from the mountain you've climbed.

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 what its about.

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 way. If you're in the business of communication and images, then if you ignore the media-sphere you're just cutting off your own foot. It's just daft.

Grayson Perry

Im a maximalist, so Im probably not very elegant. My art is not a coup de grce. Its a war of attrition.

Grayson Perry

I did basic embroidery and can probably mend a sock.

Grayson Perry

I think Im addicted to periods of doubt and low confidence. I think you should worry if you dont have them because then youre not trying hard enough.

Grayson Perry

If you act as if you love someone and care about them, then before long you do care and you do love them.

Grayson Perry

I was in therapy for six years and then stopped. You get hardwired at adolescence, like a caterpillar that pupates and re-assembles itself as an insect. It's very hard to change after that.

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Anything can be art but very little is good art.

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I like skateboarding because it's backyard danger. You don't need to go on an alpine holiday to get thrills.

Grayson Perry

I operate on anger quite a lot. Its what gets me up in the morning to make art quite often. Well, irritation at least.

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I'm suspicious when I go to someone's house and everything is beautiful and perfect. Authenticity often means mistakes.

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Im as masculine as the next man - get me on the mountain bike and Im vicious.

Grayson Perry

Pottery was what sandal-wearing, windchime-lovers did. Art is sensitive to areas of visual culture that havent yet been colonised by the art world, and perhaps what they sensed back then was, here was an area that hadnt been fully explored.

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I think its dangerous when people think theyre being expressive. Yuck. Its like people who say theyre spiritual, innit. You make the work you want to make, and you get on with it and hopefully it connects with other people.

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Im interested in those things that hover in our unconsciousnesses - class, gender, identity - until we have to think about them for whatever reason. So normal is whatevers normal for you, until its not.

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I think I grew up in an 'acultural' household - no books, no paintings, never went to an art gallery. I say that, but of course we had the TV.

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If youre sure that everything youre going to do is going to be good, then whats the point? I used to think of it as just crippling self-doubt. Now I kind of see it as a sign that Im teetering on the edge of something new. Or troubling.

Grayson Perry

Maybe if they didnt tense up, always need to be competitive, always need to be in charge, always need to be the one at the top, men might find that there are benefits from releasing the grip of power.

Grayson Perry