Grayson Perry Quotes

#1. To appreciate art you've got to work at it a bit.

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

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#3. 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.

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#4. Originality is for people with short memories

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#5. Creativity is mistakes.

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#6. The middle class male thinks he has a monopoly on objectivity.

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#7. 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

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

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#9. 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.

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#10. Art is not some fun add-on to life,

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#11. 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.

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#12. 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.

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#13. Beauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days.

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#14. Art history is a global version of that old children's game Chinese whispers.

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