Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Sebastian Horsley (English Painter, Author)

Sebastian Horsley (1962–2010,) born Marcus A. Horsley, was an English artist, painter, writer, and self-proclaimed dandy and the embodiment of decadence. His writing often revolved around his dysfunctional family, colorful and eccentric behavior, drug addictions, sex, and reliance on prostitutes.

Born in Holderness in Yorkshire, Horsley attended St Martin’s School of Art in London in the early 1980s but was expelled for forging a document to gain a grant. He made considerable wealth in the stock market during the 80s but spent lavishly on his drug addictions and prostitutes.

Horsley wrote a regular column for the Erotic Review from 1998–2004 and an “agony uncle” column for the Observer in 2006. He also contributed short and quirky pieces to The Decadent Handbook (2006) and A Hedonist’s Guide to Life (2009.)

In 2000, Horsley infamously underwent a crucifixion as a participant in a rebirth ceremony in the Philippines. He was nailed to a cross for 20 minutes. He fell when the foot support weakened by rain and broke and fainted from the pain. Horsley exhibited his paintings of this incident and others’ photographs and a film in his show Crucifixion (2002.)

Horsley captured his turbulent life in the memoir Dandy in the Underworld (2007.) It gained notoriety for his discussions of rape, sodomy, alcoholism, and drug addiction and was adapted as a one-person show for the Soho theatre. Horsley was denied entry into America on the grounds of “moral turpitude.” Horsley died of heroin and cocaine overdose.

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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 have always been fascinated by blood. Pain can be vitalizing; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don’t suffer, how do we know that we live?
Sebastian Horsley
Topics: The Artist

We can’t all be stars because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as I go by.
Sebastian Horsley

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