Grayson Perry Quotes

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Grayson Perry

Profession : Artist

Birth : March 24, 1960

I was once judging some prisoner art, and you wouldnt believe the number of eagles and tigers and symbols of freedom and wildness that came up. It was a really strong trope.

Grayson Perry

Culture is a collaborative exercise, and I think everybody will do their bit to help it grow.

Grayson Perry

Success in the art world means getting invitations to exhibit in some great places. I had shown in contemporary art museums in Europe, America, New Zealand and Japan. I'd also been asked to curate shows, and had made work to go with my selections from historical collections.

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I enjoyed the thought that hovering behind my work is a unifying belief system, just as there is behind Egyptian or Ancient Greek art. It just happens that the person who thought up the belief system behind my work is still around - ie, me.

Grayson Perry

The preparations for my very first exhibition in 1984 consisted of banging a line of nails in roughly the right place and hanging plates on them. I don't think a tape measure or a spirit level was involved and the whole process took less time than the session in the pub afterwards.

Grayson Perry

Security and care of the objects is paramount. Arty composition comes after everything is safe from greasy fingers, humidity or excess light.

Grayson Perry

Part of being an artist is that you are achingly self-conscious about every aesthetic decision you make, and taste is at its most powerful when it's a default, unconscious decision because that's when all the influence of your childhood and background and society comes into play.

Grayson Perry

I think of colour sense as the visual equivalent of perfect pitch. Some people can just reach into a pile of swatches and say that looks nice with that.

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, and stately homes that were absolutely eye-popping.

Grayson Perry

Of course, I worry about being fashionable, although when you're fashionable you're already on the track to being unfashionable.

Grayson Perry

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

Grayson Perry

If you stick to your dream script, you will have a boring and meaningless life.

Grayson Perry

I cant make art to please everybody all the time. I make art that I like.

Grayson Perry

I think people mistakenly get their chaos muddled up with their creativity. Provided you know what your issues are, they're not going to go away.

Grayson Perry

Nothing frustrates me about the art world. It is a lovely place. There are many daft things that amuse me about it though.

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I was very excited when the Holburne Museum proposed a show of my ceramics from the 80s and early 90s as it would also be an opportunity to find and record the beginnings of my career.

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My record-keeping hasnt improved much; I recently moved house and found five pots in the loft which had been unseen since the 80s and a dozen plates from the early 90s in a cupboard under a sink!

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My job is to make meaning. To make meaning in a meaningless world.

Grayson Perry

People are always happy to tell you what they think of as bad taste, but when you ask them what they really like themselves, theyre suddenly very vulnerable.

Grayson Perry

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

Grayson Perry