50 Quotes by Grayson Perry

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    For me, a nascent transvestite, that charge of the feminine was especially in their clothes. To put on a dress was to don a suit of lights, the forbidden other shocking my skin at every contact point. It could, of course, have been static, as I’m talking about the early 1970s when Crimplene was everywhere.

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    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?

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    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.

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

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

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