British - Artist | August 8, 1962 - June 17, 2010
Think of how many boring, blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretion of me.
Sebastian Horsley
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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.
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I like living sparsely. In the main room, there's no furniture - no tables, no chairs, no coffee table - not even a decaffeinated coffee table.
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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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I do a lot of things for effect, which is not to say I am superficial, but that I know how to put ideas across.
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I think you are born, and I think you die. I have a pragmatic nature, but I yearn to believe.
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My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.
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My theory is that the way you cope with the depths will ascertain the heights that you reach - they are intimately connected - and if you have a lust for life, you are also going to have a lust for death.
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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.
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The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic.
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I regret everything. But so what? At least I have cause.
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Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.
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