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
help
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?
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.
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.
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.