Martin Firrell
When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey.Collection: Running
Art's true purpose is to be human as opposed to some rarefied activity set away from real life. I think art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.Collection: Art
Revolutions have always started in cafés.Collection: Revolution
If we're being told to do stupid or cruel things, then it is morally correct to disobey.Collection: Stupid
Art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.Collection: Art
The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers.Collection: Sunflower
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.Collection: Artist
Different is not wrong.Collection: Different
Quentin Crisp said it to me; now I say it to you: say yes to everything.Collection: Said
Women are much more honourable than men.Collection: Men
Security is no replacement for liberty.Collection: Liberty
If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.Collection: Moral
Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world?Collection: Art
I want to live in a city where immigration is seen as a new source of strength.Collection: Cities
I want to live in a city where people who make the rules have to live by them.Collection: Cities
It is in the nature of truth not to be at fault.Collection: Faults
Never fall for someone with a body to diet for.Collection: Fall
Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!Collection: Defeat
I am the conscience of the 21st Century.Collection: Century
I want to live in a city where the police don't shoot you.Collection: Cities
Ageing is a privilege not a predicament.Collection: Privilege
Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.Collection: Writing
Everyone is as confused as I am.Collection: Confused
I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution.Collection: Revolution
Everybody should be entitled to one lie, one failing, one infidelity.Collection: Lying
It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a war.Collection: Running
This is the way the world really ends: not with whimper but a desperate chuckle.Collection: World
There's not a lesbian hero that everybody can relate to.Collection: Hero
The other side of reverence is loathing.Collection: Loathing
War is always a failure. It means we've failed in diplomacy and we've failed in talking to one another.Collection: War
I have a fundamental faith in folk, that people are interesting and good.Collection: People
Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.Collection: Art
I believe we have to put art back at the center of everyday life rather than allowing it to become a specialist activity at the margins of society.Collection: Art
I can accept no responsibility for any changes in your existence, miraculous or otherwise. You must take responsibility for your own life. You must have your own life because if you haven't had at least that, what have you had?Collection: Responsibility
I realized that the only possible response was to go to my wonderful local café, Maison Bertaux, check everyone was well, eat a little cake and then make art. To me, making art, and in particular public art, is always an assertion of our humanity and our strength.Collection: Art
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'.Collection: War