Martin Firrell
Has been described as a cultural activist, a campaigner and benign propagandist, placing text in public space to promote debate and positive social change.
Never fall for someone with a body to diet for.
Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!
Everybody should be entitled to one lie, one failing, one infidelity.
Feeling is its own law and truth.
Artists have different materials they work with, and for Martin it’s words.
Yes he’s a provocateur if you like, but the underlying message is very rarely ‘life’s rubbish and you’re all a bunch of sharks’. And I think that is a reflection of Martin’s belief in the better side of people.
I am the conscience of the 21st Century.
It is in the nature of truth not to be at fault.
It is so deep, it’s so impressive, it goes straight to your heart.
It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a war.
A grave and sincere apology to the people of Iraq.
I want to live in a city where dissent is welcomed as much as it's disliked.
I want to live in a city where half the people in charge are women.
Let’s speak of justice as present in the world, as independent and self-perpetuating.
I want to live in a city where the people who make the rules have to live by them.
Everything turns only to memory.
Organised religion is something I find hard to follow.
How rare that an artist should make something which forces us to think, and encourages us to stop and think, to question why we behave the way we do.
If the great Western experiment fails and we end up living in totalitarian war-on-terrorism states, one day someone’s going to say, 'Well democracy doesn’t work because they had to give it up’.
If we’re being told to do stupid or cruel things, then it is morally correct to disobey.