Sebastian Horsley Quotes & Sayings
30 most famous Sebastian Horsley quotes and sayings (artist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“A woman is supposed to have curves like an old Bentley, not like some old bike.”
“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?”
“Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.”
“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.”
“I live my life like an open book, even though it's open on the wrong page.”
“Being a dandy is a condition rather than a profession. It is a defense against suffering and a celebration of life.”
“I used to have about a hundred suits in my late twenties and early thirties when my stock was riding high and I was rich.”
“My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.”
“The universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic.”
“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.”
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