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
blazing
Think of how many boring, blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretion of me.
allowed dislike love privately publicly women worshipped
If I want to dislike women, I should be allowed to. As it happens, I love them. Women to me are privately worshipped and publicly disdained.
good people
People who have a reputation for being evil are usually good.
upright
I consider myself to be very correct and proper: an upright citizen.
nature pragmatic yearn
I think you are born, and I think you die. I have a pragmatic nature, but I yearn to believe.
fashion clothes giving
Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.
personality together littles
It's better to be quotable than honest, I don't speak, I quote. I am a fraud. I have cobbled together my personality from hundreds of little bits. I am simultaneously the most genuine and the most artificial person you will ever meet.
people listening noise
There's a lot of noise about me that stops a lot of people from listening, but the good side is if you expose yourself like that, you're left with only good people who can see through you-you get rid of all the wankers.
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?
historical age growing
One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.
people obsessed invigorating
People are obsessed by happiness, but there are a lot of other invigorating experiences available.
awful happens seems
But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone
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.