Grayson Perry Quotes & Sayings

To appreciate art you've got to work at it a bit. — Grayson Perry

You want someone in the ballpark and then you grow together. Thats what a relashionship's about: changing each other. — Grayson Perry

I just love dressing up in everything a man is supposed not to be, in all that vulnerability, sweetness, preciousness and impracticality. — Grayson Perry

Art history is a global version of that old children's game Chinese whispers. — Grayson Perry

Beauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days. — Grayson Perry

Creativity is mistakes. — Grayson Perry

The rise of gyms, factories of cosmetic muscle, is partly down to an increased desire to sculpt an idealised body - a body not formed by experience, but to fulfil a well-marketed visual stereotype — Grayson Perry

Artists should imprint their handwriting on the work, because if they give a piece to a fabrication studio, the craftsmen there may actually be too perfect; you don't see the quirks that the artist would have developed. — Grayson Perry

The middle class male thinks he has a monopoly on objectivity. — Grayson Perry

Until we can insert a USB into our ear and download our thoughts, drawing remains the best way of getting visual information on to the page. I draw as a collagist, juxtaposing images and styles of mark-making from many sources. The world I draw is the interior landscape of my personal obsessions and of cultures I have absorbed and adapted, from Latvian folk art to Japanese screens. I lasso thoughts with a pen. I draw a stave church or someone from Hello! Magazine not because I want to replicate how they look, but because of the meaning they bring to the work. — Grayson Perry

Originality is for people with short memories — Grayson Perry

Art is not some fun add-on to life, — Grayson Perry

I like the idea of my art being a covetable object; I like preciousness. A lot of art seems to flaunt its throw-away character ... But you have to sail out into the dangerous sea of fine art with these crafted works. — Grayson Perry

Since 1960s pop art the art world has been happy for artists to use the lowbrow to add zest and authenticity to their works. But middlebrow has resonances of the suburban bourgeousie who might see art as aspirational by association. — Grayson Perry

I think when we talk of craft we talk of a certain set of processes, whether that be clay of glass if jewelry or textiles, and we look back through history instantly. — Grayson Perry