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.
allowed outrageous
Why shouldn't I be allowed to say stupid, outrageous things?
reveals truth
Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.
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.
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.
upright
I consider myself to be very correct and proper: an upright citizen.
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.
half
I am half-Byronic, half-moronic; part-shaman, part-showman.
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.
curves bentley bike
A woman is supposed to have curves like an old Bentley, not like some old bike.