The basic premise of taste, as Stephen Bayley, the cultural critic, said, is that taste is that which does not alienate your peers. Most people want to fit in with their tribe in some way or another, so they give off signals, whether it's with their clothes, their behavior, their car, their whatever, and gain status. Every tribe has a hierarchy, and that's what taste is: it's an unconscious display of who you are, and where you want to be.
Originality is for people with short memories - Grayson Perry
Originality is for people with short memories
- Grayson Perry
Taste is a phenomenon. Most of taste is unconscious - it comes from your upbringing, from your family, from your society, your gender, your race; it'… - Grayson Perry
Taste is a phenomenon. Most of taste is unconscious - it comes from your upbringing, from your family, from your society, your gender, your race; it'…
I'm concerned with not ever being fashionable. - Grayson Perry
I'm concerned with not ever being fashionable.
I just love dressing up in everything a man is supposed not to be, in all that vulnerability, sweetness, preciousness and impracticality. - Grayson Perry
I just love dressing up in everything a man is supposed not to be, in all that vulnerability, sweetness, preciousness and impracticality.
Art is not some fun add-on to life. - Grayson Perry
Art is not some fun add-on to life.
To appreciate art you’ve got to work at it a bit. - Grayson Perry
To appreciate art you’ve got to work at it a bit.
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 h… - 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 h…
Contemporary art often plays to the part of us that is very uncomfortable with not being sure, that cannot maintain a state of 'don't know'. The over… - Grayson Perry
Contemporary art often plays to the part of us that is very uncomfortable with not being sure, that cannot maintain a state of 'don't know'. The over…
Beauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days. - Grayson Perry
Beauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days.
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