Quotes by Sebastian Horsley

Sebastian Horsley

[…] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […]

Abortion

Life Is

Misery

A woman is supposed to have curves like an old Bentley, not like some old bike.

Bentley

Bike

Curves

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?

Artist

Blood

Pain

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

Clothes

Fashion

Giving

But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone

Awful

Happens

Seems

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.

Neurosis

Oscars

Stuff

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.

Growing Up

Horrible

Interesting

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.

Attention

Greatness

People

I am half-Byronic, half-moronic; part-shaman, part-showman; half-Nazi, half-Liberace.

Half

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’.

Intellectual

Looks

Thinking

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Abortion

Abyss

Age

America

Artist

Attention

Awful

Bentley

Bike

Blood

Bombs

Book

Boredom

Calculators

Character

Clothes

Criticism

Curves

Desirable

Dislike Me

Dresses

Drug

Environment

Evil

Expectations

Fashion

Function

Girl

Giving

Greatness

Growing

Growing Up

Half

Hands

Happens

Hate

Heart

Historical

Horrible

Ideas

Ifs

Inspirational

Intellectual

Interesting

Invigorating

Life Is

Listening

Littles

Looks

Lovers

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Quotes by Sebastian Horsley

Sebastian Horsley

[…] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […]

A woman is supposed to have curves like an old Bentley, not like some old bike.

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

But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone

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.

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 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.

I am half-Byronic, half-moronic; part-shaman, part-showman; half-Nazi, half-Liberace.

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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