Sebastian Horsley Quotes
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The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence.
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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 the great sum of things all a man's endless grapplings are no more significant than the scuttlings of a cockroach. The universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic. I have reached a nirvana of negativity. I can look futility in the face and still see promise in the stars.
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But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone
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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.
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Getting old is horrible, but it is interesting . . . one of the things I've realized is that growing old is compulsory, but growing up is optional.
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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.
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My one concession to American sensibilities was to remove my nail polish.
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If I hear that people are litigious, I immediately dismiss them.
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Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.
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Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.
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I don't think I'm known for my gifts - I'm known for my gall. I don't want to be just a famous person - I'm too old.
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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. 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?
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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.
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I like fat girls. A woman can never be too poor or too fat. I'd take a poor fat girl over a rich thin girl like Kate Moss.
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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.
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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.
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The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'.
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I don't really know what Americans are like. I've no idea. I know a few things about them. In my imagination, they have warm peachy hearts, whereas the English have horrible spiteful withered hearts - success in England inspires envy - in America, it inspires hope.
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It's really interesting because 50 years ago, if you didn't wear a hat everyone looked at you. It just proves that everything is fashion.
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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.
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[…] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […]
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I might be old, but I'm still desirable.
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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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A woman is supposed to have curves like an old Bentley, not like some old bike.
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People are obsessed by happiness, but there are a lot of other invigorating experiences available.
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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.
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I can count all the lovers I've had on one hand...if I'm holding a calculator.
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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.
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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.
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I am half-Byronic, half-moronic; part-shaman, part-showman; half-Nazi, half-Liberace.
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