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
might stills desirable
I might be old, but I'm still desirable.
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.
awful happens seems
But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone
neurosis oscars stuff
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.
mother character men
I didn't want to tell Mother I worked as a journalist. She thought I was a prostitute. Locking yourself in a room and inventing characters and conversations which do not exit is no way for a grown man to behave.
people listening noise
There's a lot of noise about me that stops a lot of people from listening, but the good side is if you expose yourself like that, you're left with only good people who can see through you-you get rid of all the wankers.
historical age growing
One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.
drug awful sober
The problem I've got is that I really, really like drugs. I love everything about them. It is horrific being sober all the time-utterly awful.
hate dislike-me people
People either hate me or dislike me - but I realized that people aren't against you, they are for themselves. We're all prejudiced in favor of ourselves.
pain artist blood
An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more. I have always been fascinated by blood. Pain can be vitalizing; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?
self-esteem self-pity narcotics
Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.
people obsessed invigorating
People are obsessed by happiness, but there are a lot of other invigorating experiences available.
personality together littles
It's better to be quotable than honest, I don't speak, I quote. 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.
lying expectations gaps
Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.