Sebastian Horsley quotes

A woman is supposed to have curves like an old Bentley, not like some old bike. (Sebastian Horsley)
My theory is that the way you cope with the depths will ascertain the heights that you reach - they are intimately connected - and if you have a lust for life, you are also going to have a lust for death. View quote
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The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic. View quote
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Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be. View quote
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Pain can be vitalising; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live? View quote
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If I hear that people are litigious, I immediately dismiss them. View quote
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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. View quote
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My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway. View quote
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I am half-Byronic, half-moronic; part-shaman, part-showman. View quote
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I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say 'pass the mustard'. View quote
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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. (Sebastian Horsley)

Sebastian Horsley

Sebastian Horsley - Image
Photo: Paul Duane, CC BY-SA 2.0
Occupation: British Artist
Born: August 8, 1962
Died: June 17, 2010
Quotes count: 11