Grayson Perry Quotes

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Grayson Perry

Profession : Artist

Birth : March 24, 1960

Well, within my business, visual art, the intake is 75 per cent female and yet you look at who has showed their work and I think there still is a dominance of males.

Grayson Perry

One of the dangers of male emotionality is that theyre not aware of it churning away beneath them the whole time.

Grayson Perry

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

Grayson Perry

From birth until I went to art college when I was 19, there are perhaps less than a dozen photographs of me.

Grayson Perry

When we talk of identity, we often think of groups such as black Muslim lesbians in wheelchairs. This is because identity only seems to become an issue when it is challenged or under threat.

Grayson Perry

I often hear women approvingly describe themselves or other women as feisty. Feisty, I feel, has sexist implications, as if standing up for yourself was exceptional in a woman. It sounds like a word that a raffish Lothario would use about a difficult conquest.

Grayson Perry

Many office workers loathe dress-down Fridays because they can no longer hide behind a suit. They might have to expose something of their messy selves through their 'casual' clothes.

Grayson Perry

The male role is heavily policed from birth, by parents, peers and bosses. Politicians in particular are harshly kept in line by a media that seems to uphold more bizarrely rigid standards of conformity than those held by any citizen.

Grayson Perry

In the art world, originality is seen as a precious commodity and its increasingly difficult to get because the territory of art is so trampled.

Grayson Perry

I always think that painters are fighting over the last original brushstroke. To find your own voice is incredibly hard.

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. You want to go down in the annals of art history.

Grayson Perry

We learned how to look at art from religion.

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 I just trust in my sense of what I'm interested in and my mission of clarity.

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 to pop music. If you're an artist you should know about the art world.

Grayson Perry

I've got a pot in my studio that is just a bitter rant against the art world. I call it my Dorian Gray.

Grayson Perry

Self-consciousness is almost the biggest thing you have to deal with as an artist. That's why many artists crash and burn, because they can't handle the attention and the financial implications of every brushstroke.

Grayson Perry

I love learning. I always learn on the job.

Grayson Perry

My great overall skill is spontaneity and winging it!

Grayson Perry

I have a knack for winning prizes; it must be something Ive done!

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 than with pondering the great philosophical ideas.

Grayson Perry