Sebastian Horsley Zitate auf Englisch

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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.

I regret everything. But so what? At least I have cause.

Sebastian Horsley

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?

Sebastian Horsley

The universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic.

Sebastian Horsley

My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.

Sebastian Horsley

Think of how many boring, blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretion of me.

Sebastian Horsley

I don't talk, I quote. I can't help it. It's better to be quotable than honest.

Sebastian Horsley

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

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.

Sebastian Horsley

An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more.

Sebastian Horsley

Being a dandy is a condition rather than a profession. It is a defense against suffering and a celebration of life.

Sebastian Horsley

I think you are born, and I think you die. I have a pragmatic nature, but I yearn to believe.

Sebastian Horsley

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.

Sebastian Horsley

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.

Sebastian Horsley

People who have a reputation for being evil are usually good.

Sebastian Horsley

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.

Sebastian Horsley