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Top 30 Grayson Perry Quotes (2025 Update)

Grayson Perry Quote: “Originality is for people with short memories.”

1. “Originality is for people with short memories.”

— Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry Quote: “Creativity is mistakes.”

2. “Creativity is mistakes.”

— Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry Quote: “To appreciate art you’ve got to work at it a bit.”

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

— Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry Quote: “Beauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days.”

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

— Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry Quote: “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.”

5. “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

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

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

— Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry Quote: “We need to rebrand vulnerability and emotion. A vulnerable man is not some weird anomaly. He is open to being hurt, but also open to love.”

7. “We need to rebrand vulnerability and emotion. A vulnerable man is not some weird anomaly. He is open to being hurt, but also open to love.”

— Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry Quote: “How we talk about masculinity might be just as important, if not more so, than what we say. The very idea that there is a strict set of rules needs to be chucked away. The future of masculinity is a plethora of masculinities.”

8. “How we talk about masculinity might be just as important, if not more so, than what we say. The very idea that there is a strict set of rules needs to be chucked away. The future of masculinity is a plethora of masculinities.”

— Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry Quote: “Men’s rights The right to be vulnerable The right to be weak The right to be wrong The right to be intuitive The right not to know The right to be uncertain The right to be flexible The right not to be ashamed of any of these.”

9. “Men’s rights The right to be vulnerable The right to be weak The right to be wrong The right to be intuitive The right not to know The right to be uncertain The right to be flexible The right not to be ashamed of any of these.”

— Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry Quote: “I think all men have this instinct to retreat into oneself to a greater or lesser degree. It is the self-sufficient hero or the lonely suicide.”

10. “I think all men have this instinct to retreat into oneself to a greater or lesser degree. It is the self-sufficient hero or the lonely suicide.”

— Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry Quote: “We live in an age where photography rains on us like sewage from above.”

11. “We live in an age where photography rains on us like sewage from above.”

— Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry Quote: “The middle class male thinks he has a monopoly on objectivity.”

12. “The middle class male thinks he has a monopoly on objectivity.”

— Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry Quote: “Art history is a global version of that old children’s game Chinese whispers.”

13. “Art history is a global version of that old children’s game Chinese whispers.”

— Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Grayson Perry Quote: “Keith Tyson, a winner of the Turner Prize, did a piece once where he just got the things already in the gallery and made them into artworks with what he called his ‘magical activation’. So he looked at the light switch and he called it ‘the apocalyptic switch’ and he looked at the light bulb and he called it ‘the light bulb of awareness’. He was using his power as an artist to designate things art, but it was within the art context.”

15. “Keith Tyson, a winner of the Turner Prize, did a piece once where he just got the things already in the gallery and made them into artworks with what he called his ‘magical activation’. So he looked at the light switch and he called it ‘the apocalyptic switch’ and he looked at the light bulb and he called it ‘the light bulb of awareness’. He was using his power as an artist to designate things art, but it was within the art context.”

— Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry Quote: “It’s fine being terribly cynical and ironic when I’m out in the evening and I’m with my mates, but when I want to look at art, I want to have a sincere on-to-one experience with it because I’m a serious artist. I’ve dedicated my life to it. So I go to exhibitions in the morning on my own when I can go, “Hmm,’ and maybe have a little bit of a moment. I have to protect my tender parts from that wicked irony.”

16. “It’s fine being terribly cynical and ironic when I’m out in the evening and I’m with my mates, but when I want to look at art, I want to have a sincere on-to-one experience with it because I’m a serious artist. I’ve dedicated my life to it. So I go to exhibitions in the morning on my own when I can go, “Hmm,’ and maybe have a little bit of a moment. I have to protect my tender parts from that wicked irony.”

— Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry Quote: “If George Osborne had dressed up as a cross between Flashman and the Grim Reaper instead of a business suit when he delivered his budgets, perhaps we would have had a more appropriate vision of who was controlling the nation’s finances.”

17. “If George Osborne had dressed up as a cross between Flashman and the Grim Reaper instead of a business suit when he delivered his budgets, perhaps we would have had a more appropriate vision of who was controlling the nation’s finances.”

— Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry Quote: “I sometimes watch the evening news on television and think all the world’s problems can be boiled down to one thing: the behavior of people with a Y chromosome.”

18. “I sometimes watch the evening news on television and think all the world’s problems can be boiled down to one thing: the behavior of people with a Y chromosome.”

— Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry Quote: “Because I am a transvestite, people often assume that this gives me a special insight into the opposite gender. But this is rubbish: how can I, brought up as a man, know anything about the experience of being a woman? It would be insulting to women if I thought I did. If anything, it gives me a sharper insight into what it is to be a man, since from the age of twelve I have been questioning my own masculinity.”

19. “Because I am a transvestite, people often assume that this gives me a special insight into the opposite gender. But this is rubbish: how can I, brought up as a man, know anything about the experience of being a woman? It would be insulting to women if I thought I did. If anything, it gives me a sharper insight into what it is to be a man, since from the age of twelve I have been questioning my own masculinity.”

— Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry Quote: “Though there were no strong conventions, until the nineteenth century pink was certainly a very suitable color for boys.”

20. “Though there were no strong conventions, until the nineteenth century pink was certainly a very suitable color for boys.”

— Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry Quote: “Equality must change from feeling disruptive to feeling necessary and comforting.”

21. “Equality must change from feeling disruptive to feeling necessary and comforting.”

— Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry Quote: “They seemed to have no conception of an alternative; they were locked into a ritualistic playing out of the basest masculinity. They had just the bones of it, any culture, skill, aspiration or discipline having long since boiled away. A bit like Donald Trump really.”

22. “They seemed to have no conception of an alternative; they were locked into a ritualistic playing out of the basest masculinity. They had just the bones of it, any culture, skill, aspiration or discipline having long since boiled away. A bit like Donald Trump really.”

— Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry Quote: “We should not deny males the opportunity to nurture and care, just as we should not deny females the opportunity to kill and maim in the name of Western democracy, if they fancy it.”

23. “We should not deny males the opportunity to nurture and care, just as we should not deny females the opportunity to kill and maim in the name of Western democracy, if they fancy it.”

— Grayson Perry

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

24. “You want someone in the ballpark and then you grow together. Thats what a relashionship’s about: changing each other.”

— Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry Quote: “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.”

25. “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

Grayson Perry Quote: “All of us males need to look at ourselves with a clear eye and ask what sort of men would make the world a better place, for everyone.”

26. “All of us males need to look at ourselves with a clear eye and ask what sort of men would make the world a better place, for everyone.”

— Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry Quote: “Revolutions that really effect lasting change happen thoughtfully in peacetime.”

27. “Revolutions that really effect lasting change happen thoughtfully in peacetime.”

— Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry Quote: “Men might need to work less on their biceps and more on their intuition.”

28. “Men might need to work less on their biceps and more on their intuition.”

— Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry Quote: “Has modern man always been in crisis because his ‘instinct’ to feel superior is at odds with the central concept of the modern world post-Enlightenment, that we humans are all equal?”

29. “Has modern man always been in crisis because his ‘instinct’ to feel superior is at odds with the central concept of the modern world post-Enlightenment, that we humans are all equal?”

— Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry Quote: “I grew up with David Bowie, the patron saint of the boy in his bedroom who felt alienated by the male culture of his peers.”

30. “I grew up with David Bowie, the patron saint of the boy in his bedroom who felt alienated by the male culture of his peers.”

— Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry Quote: “We may try to numb anger, but when we do we numb joy and pleasure on the world too. This numbing does not mean we stop having the feelings, it just stops us from being aware that we are having them. Those feelings are still churning away, tensing our bodies, writing unconscious scripts for us, storing up stuff to unload on to the world, on to our kids, but preferably on to our therapists. This numbness also inhibits the ability to have good relationships as well.”

31. “We may try to numb anger, but when we do we numb joy and pleasure on the world too. This numbing does not mean we stop having the feelings, it just stops us from being aware that we are having them. Those feelings are still churning away, tensing our bodies, writing unconscious scripts for us, storing up stuff to unload on to the world, on to our kids, but preferably on to our therapists. This numbness also inhibits the ability to have good relationships as well.”

— Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry Quote: “Feminists and civil rights campaigners made white men visible in ways they’d never been before. They started to give the default dominant group equal ‘otherness’, and white men didn’t like it. This feeling of visibility prompted men to adopt a victim status befitting an oppressed group. The patriarchy felt itself wobble and fall a notch nearer equality, but screamed as if it had fallen way below the groups it still oppressed.”

32. “Feminists and civil rights campaigners made white men visible in ways they’d never been before. They started to give the default dominant group equal ‘otherness’, and white men didn’t like it. This feeling of visibility prompted men to adopt a victim status befitting an oppressed group. The patriarchy felt itself wobble and fall a notch nearer equality, but screamed as if it had fallen way below the groups it still oppressed.”

— Grayson Perry

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