Sebastian Horsley
Sebastian Horsley
Sebastian Horsleywas a London artist. Horsley's writing often revolved around his dysfunctional family, his drug addictions, sex, and his reliance on prostitutes...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth8 August 1962
far people shows
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.
nature pragmatic yearn
I think you are born, and I think you die. I have a pragmatic nature, but I yearn to believe.
upright
I consider myself to be very correct and proper: an upright citizen.
good people
People who have a reputation for being evil are usually good.
allowed dislike love privately publicly women worshipped
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.
blazing
Think of how many boring, blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretion of me.
artificial genuine together
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.
austere food neurotic pleasure says stuff took
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.
neither nor
The universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic.
early high hundred late riding stock suits thirties twenties
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.
against condition dandy life rather
Being a dandy is a condition rather than a profession. It is a defense against suffering and a celebration of life.
faith
My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.
reveals truth
Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.
life open though wrong
I live my life like an open book, even though it's open on the wrong page.