Sebastian Horsley
Sebastian Horsley
Sebastian Horsleywas a London artist. Horsley's writing often revolved around his dysfunctional family, his drug addictions, sex, and his reliance on prostitutes...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth8 August 1962
self-esteem self-pity narcotics
Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.
pain artist blood
An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more. I have always been fascinated by blood. Pain can be vitalizing; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?
mirrors looks environment
I keep the shutters closed because I like to work in a hermetic environment. I like mirrors. When you look out of the window, all you see is ugliness, but when you look in the mirror all you see is beauty.
hate dislike-me people
People either hate me or dislike me - but I realized that people aren't against you, they are for themselves. We're all prejudiced in favor of ourselves.
hands lovers calculators
I can count all the lovers I've had on one hand...if I'm holding a calculator.
half
I am half-Byronic, half-moronic; part-shaman, part-showman.
nails polish concessions
My one concession to American sensibilities was to remove my nail polish.
make-me-happy wanted one-thing
I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.
abortion misery life-is
[…] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […]
greatness people attention
I am desperate for attention. But everyone else is too. Everyone has fantasies of fame and greatness. Life for most people is a process of shedding those fantasies.
neurosis oscars stuff
Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't, he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff like that. Dandyism is much more austere-much more Calvinistic, more neurotic - it oscillates between narcissism and neurosis.
growing-up interesting horrible
Getting old is horrible, but it is interesting . . . one of the things I've realized is that growing old is compulsory, but growing up is optional.
curves bentley bike
A woman is supposed to have curves like an old Bentley, not like some old bike.
criticism dresses bombs
My only criticism about Quentin Crisp is that the subversive must be ready to subvert themselves. I may dress for myself, but I undress for everybody else, whereas he never did that - he was never prepared to drop a bomb on everything he did.