Martin Firrell Quotes

• When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey.

  Martin Firrell

  Running, World, Fool

  The Guardian, February 25, 2006.

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• 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.

  Martin Firrell

  Arte, Real, Pensamiento

  "The Question Mark Inside". Documentary, October 30, 2009.

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• Revolutions have always started in cafés.

  Martin Firrell

  Revolución

  The Independent on Sunday, April 18, 2004.

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• If we're being told to do stupid or cruel things, then it is morally correct to disobey.

  Martin Firrell

  Stupid, Ifs

  "Art in a Word". Documentary by Vera Baghiroli, QOOB TV, July 22, 2008.

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• Art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.

  Martin Firrell

  Art, Real, Challenges

  "Art in a Word". Documentary by Vera Baghiroli, QOOB TV, July 22, 2008.

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• It is in the nature of truth not to be at fault.

  Martin Firrell

  Fallos

  International Herald Tribune, September 19, 2005.

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• The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers.

  Martin Firrell

  Girasol

  "The Question Mark Inside". Text projections onto St Paul's Cathedral, London, 2008.

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• 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.

  Martin Firrell

  Artist, Thinking, Way

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• Different is not wrong.

  Martin Firrell

  Diferentes

  Time Out, November 17, 2006.

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• Quentin Crisp said it to me; now I say it to you: say yes to everything.

  Martin Firrell

  Said, Crisps, Quentin

  British Academy of Film and Television Arts website, December 2009.

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• Women are much more honourable than men.

  Martin Firrell

  Hombres

  Text projections onto the Guards Chapel, Household Division of the British Army, London, www.martinfirrell.com. November 2009.

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• Security is no replacement for liberty.

  Martin Firrell

  Liberty, Replacements, Security

  "Keep the Faith". Text projections in the Duveen Gallery, Tate Britain, London, 2006.

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• If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.

  Martin Firrell

  Moral, Obedience, Cruelty

  "Keep the Faith". Text projections in the Duveen Gallery, Tate Britain, London, 2006.

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• Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.

  Martin Firrell

  Writing, Add, Our Time

  "Art in a Word". Documentary by Vera Baghiroli, QOOB TV, July 22, 2008.

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• Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world?

  Martin Firrell

  Art, World, Settling

  "The Question Mark Inside". Documentary, 2009.

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• I want to live in a city where immigration is seen as a new source of strength.

  Martin Firrell

  Cities, Immigration, Want

  "I Want to Live in a City Where". Text projections onto The National Gallery, London, 2006.

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• I want to live in a city where people who make the rules have to live by them.

  Martin Firrell

  Cities, People, Want

  "I Want to Live in a City Where". Text projections onto The National Gallery, London, www.martinfirrell.com. 2006.

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• Never fall for someone with a body to diet for.

  Martin Firrell

  Fall, Body, Diets

  Time Out, December 12, 2001.

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• Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!

  Martin Firrell

  Defeat, Mediocre, Collapse

  The London Evening Standard, August 09, 2001.

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• I am the conscience of the 21st Century.

  Martin Firrell

  Century, 21st Century, Conscience

  International Herald Tribune, November 24, 2005.

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• I want to live in a city where the police don't shoot you.

  Martin Firrell

  Cities, Police, Want

  The Guardian, July 22, 2006.

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• Ageing is a privilege not a predicament.

  Martin Firrell

  Privilege, Predicaments, Ageing

  Article by Caitlin Moran, The Times, June 18, 2007.

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• Everyone is as confused as I am.

  Martin Firrell

  Confundido

  "The Question Mark Inside". Documentary, 2009.

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• Everybody should be entitled to one lie, one failing, one infidelity.

  Martin Firrell

  Lying, Infidelity, Failing

  International Herald Tribune, November 24, 2005.

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• It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a war.

  Martin Firrell

  Running, War, Men

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