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 …

- Grayson Perry

Art is not some fun add-on to life.

- 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…

- 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…

- Grayson Perry

To appreciate art you’ve got to work at it a bit.

- 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

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

- 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

I'm concerned with not ever being fashionable.

- Grayson Perry