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30 quotes by Sebastian Horsley

Sebastian Horsley (born Marcus A. Horsley; 8 August 1962 – 17 June 2010 ) was a London artist. Horsley's writing often revolved around his dysfunctional family, his drug addictions, sex, and his reliance on prostitutes.
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A woman is supposed to have curves like an old Bentley, not like some old bike.

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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.

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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?

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Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.

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Being a dandy is a condition rather than a profession. It is a defense against suffering and a celebration of life.

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I live my life like an open book, even though it's open on the wrong page.

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The universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic.

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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... →

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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... →

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You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have been completely unimportant; that in... →

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An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more.

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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'.

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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.

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