Sebastian Horsley famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.
-- Sebastian Horsley

#Fashion #Giving #Feelings
Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.
-- Sebastian Horsley

#Lying #Expectations #Gaps
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.
-- Sebastian Horsley

#Personality #Together #Littles
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 Horsley

#Pain #Artist #Blood
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 Horsley

#Thinking #Intellectual
I am half-Byronic, half-moronic; part-shaman, part-showman.
-- Sebastian Horsley

#Half
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.
-- Sebastian Horsley

#Mirrors #Looks #Environment
My one concession to American sensibilities was to remove my nail polish.
-- Sebastian Horsley

#Nails #Polish #Nail Polish
But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone
-- Sebastian Horsley

#Awful
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 Horsley

#Mother #Character #Men
I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.
-- Sebastian Horsley

#Make Me Happy #Wanted
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 Horsley

#Historical #Age #Growing
The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence.
-- Sebastian Horsley

#Boredom #Function #Release
Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.
-- Sebastian Horsley

#Self Esteem #Self #Self Pity
The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'.
-- Sebastian Horsley

#Inspirational #Motivation #Artist
I can count all the lovers I've had on one hand...if I'm holding a calculator.
-- Sebastian Horsley

#Hands #Lovers #Calculators
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 Horsley

#Stars #Men #Evil
[â€¦] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia [â€¦]
-- Sebastian Horsley

#Abortion #Misery #Life Is

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