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.
Security is no replacement for liberty.
Imagination has not saved us.
The immense beauty, the vast almost unbearable beauty of justice.
Revolutions have always started in cafés.
War is always a failure. It means we’ve failed in diplomacy and we’ve failed in talking to one another.
You have to work out how not to die tomorrow.
The other side of reverence is loathing.
When the world’s run by fools it’s the duty of intelligence to disobey.
I have a fundamental faith in folk, that people are interesting and good.
The one irreducible truth about humanity is diversity.
Everyone is as confused as I am.
One of the capital's most influential public artists.
Many will support Firrell’s aims… the combined effect of words, visuals and soundtrack is powerful… Firrell, an artist based in the city, is renowned for text pieces like this.
All I need is a hat and a vagina.
The bodily strength, the fierceness and beauty of young women.
Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.
Art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.
There's an obligation to try every route to happiness.
It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a war.