Quotes About Grayson Perry

#1. If you want to get on in life get off your arse because it ain't going to come to you. And if it does come to you and you're not off your arse then you ain't going to keep it very long.

Ray Winstone

#2. I carry my iPod everywhere. My favorite group is the John Butler Trio, an Australian jam band. The lead singer and guitarist writes amazing lyrics.

Hope Solo

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

Grayson Perry

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

Grayson Perry

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Grayson Perry

#8. 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

#9. Lancelet's skin was so soft - she had thought all men were like Arthur, sunburnt and hairy, but his body was smooth as a child's.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

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

Grayson Perry

#11. 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

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

Grayson Perry

#13. I usually shower the night before, lay out all my clothes on the floor, so then I just fall into them, clean my teeth, stumble out the door, get into my car and go wherever it is that we're shooting. You have breakfast on set.

Lenny Abrahamson

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

Grayson Perry

#15. Creativity is mistakes.

Grayson Perry

#16. Originality is for people with short memories

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#17. When I opened Wikipedia, it had three articles, yet it was called an encyclopedia.

Jimmy Wales

#18. All the pundits and D.C. insiders thought I'd never be standing on the main stage. I am and I'm going to stay there.

Carly Fiorina

#19. When people argue for the existence of a supernatural God who is somewhere else and reaches in on occasion to do a miracle or two, they're skipping over the very world that surrounds us and courses through our veins and lights up the sky right here, right now.

Rob Bell

#20. He adored telling this story of near disaster and how he had triumphed, just as he relished the report of how he went on stage every night on tour in his The Cosmic Dance of Shiva, requiring all manner of spinal flexibilities and related actions, while his sacroiliac was painfully out of place.

Walter Terry

#21. 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

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

Grayson Perry