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.
Art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.
Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.
The bodily strength, the fierceness and beauty of young women.
All I need is a hat and a vagina.
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.
One of the capital's most influential public artists.
Security is no replacement for liberty.
The one irreducible truth about humanity is diversity.
I have a fundamental faith in folk, that people are interesting and good.
When the world’s run by fools it’s the duty of intelligence to disobey.
The other side of reverence is loathing.
You have to work out how not to die tomorrow.
War is always a failure. It means we’ve failed in diplomacy and we’ve failed in talking to one another.
Revolutions have always started in cafés.
The immense beauty, the vast almost unbearable beauty of justice.
Imagination has not saved us.