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
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I don't talk, I quote. I can't help it. It's better to be quotable than honest.
furniture main
I like living sparsely. In the main room, there's no furniture - no tables, no chairs, no coffee table - not even a decaffeinated coffee table.
far people shows
If someone thinks I'm posh, it just shows how lowly they are. Some people think I went to Eton. I'm far too stupid to get into Eton.
allowed outrageous
Why shouldn't I be allowed to say stupid, outrageous things?
life open though wrong
I live my life like an open book, even though it's open on the wrong page.
reveals truth
Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.
against condition dandy life rather
Being a dandy is a condition rather than a profession. It is a defense against suffering and a celebration of life.
early high hundred late riding stock suits thirties twenties
I used to have about a hundred suits in my late twenties and early thirties when my stock was riding high and I was rich.
neither nor
The universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic.
austere food neurotic pleasure says stuff took
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.
artificial genuine together
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.
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.