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Sebastian Horsley


British
August 8, 1962
Artist
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I like to remind myself that every morning I'm making a choice to live.


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


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