Sebastian Horsley quotes
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“Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.”
-- Sebastian HorsleySource : "The agony and the ecstasy" by Jessica Berens, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2002.
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“Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.”
-- Sebastian HorsleySource : Sebastian Horsley (2016). “Dandy in the Underworld”, p.234, Hachette UK
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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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“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?”
-- Sebastian HorsleySource : "Horsley's cross is a painful one to bare" by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.
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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'.”
-- Sebastian HorsleySource : "Horsley play brings outrage back to the Soho stage" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2010.
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“I am half-Byronic, half-moronic; part-shaman, part-showman.”
-- Sebastian HorsleySource : "Sebastian Horsley died of heroin and cocaine overdose", www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2010.
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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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“My one concession to American sensibilities was to remove my nail polish.”
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“But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone”
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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.”
-- Sebastian HorsleySource : Sebastian Horsley (2016). “Dandy in the Underworld”, p.243, Hachette UK
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“I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.”
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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.”
-- Sebastian HorsleySource : Sebastian Horsley (2016). “Dandy in the Underworld”, p.234, Hachette UK
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“The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence.”
-- Sebastian HorsleySource : Quoted in Harold Atkins and Archie Newman Beecham Stories (1978).
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“Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.”
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“The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'.”
-- Sebastian HorsleySource : Sebastian Horsley (2016). “Dandy in the Underworld”, p.292, Hachette UK
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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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“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.”
-- Sebastian HorsleySource : "Farewell Sebastian Horsley: a true bohemian" by Emily Hill, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2010.
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“[…] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […]”
-- Sebastian Horsley
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