50 Quotes by Grayson Perry

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    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.

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    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.

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

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    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.

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    Equality must change from feeling disruptive to feeling necessary and comforting.

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