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.
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’.
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.
Organised religion is something I find hard to follow.
Everything turns only to memory.
I want to live in a city where the people who make the rules have to live by them.
Let’s speak of justice as present in the world, as independent and self-perpetuating.
I want to live in a city where half the people in charge are women.
I want to live in a city where dissent is welcomed as much as it's disliked.
A grave and sincere apology to the people of Iraq.
If we’re being told to do stupid or cruel things, then it is morally correct to disobey.
It is so deep, it’s so impressive, it goes straight to your heart.
It is in the nature of truth not to be at fault.
I am the conscience of the 21st Century.
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.
Artists have different materials they work with, and for Martin it’s words.
Feeling is its own law and truth.
Everybody should be entitled to one lie, one failing, one infidelity.
Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!
Every river can be crossed.