Sebastian Horsley Quotes

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

By nature, I sit alone in a room and type... My goal was never celebrity.

Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.

Mirrors are there when we are and yet they never give anything back to us but our own image. Never, never shall we know what they are when they are alone or what is behind them.

I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

Solitude is un-American.

I'm actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn't room for anyone in my life. That isn't entirely the case.

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

I've always been kind of a loner. Continue to be.

I've spent so much of my life travelling alone, so I keep things to myself.

I don't need anyone else, which is a great feeling, but also a depressing one.

I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

Much of the stress and emptiness that haunt us can be traced back to our lack of attention to beauty. Internally, the mind becomes coarse and dull if it remains unvisited by images and thoughts that hold the radiance of beauty.

If I had to name my greatest value in life, it would be beauty.

The only thing that's better in a group versus being by yourself is the companionship. You have to do a lot of thing by yourself as a solo artist. But it's cool. It's worth it.