Sebastian Horsley Quotes
Top 43 wise famous quotes and sayings by Sebastian Horsley
Sebastian Horsley Famous Quotes & Sayings
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We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for.
Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.
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.
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.
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.
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?
I like living sparsely. In the main room, there's no furniture - no tables, no chairs, no coffee table - not even a decaffeinated coffee table.
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.
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.
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 am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say 'pass the mustard'.
If someone thinks I'm posh, it just shows how lowly they are. Some people think I went to Eton. I'm far too stupid to get into Eton.
Being a dandy is a condition rather than a profession. It is a defense against suffering and a celebration of life.
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.
My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.