Martin Firrell quotes
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“Quentin Crisp said it to me; now I say it to you: say yes to everything.”
-- Martin FirrellSource : British Academy of Film and Television Arts website, December 2009.
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“If we're being told to do stupid or cruel things, then it is morally correct to disobey.”
-- Martin FirrellSource : "Art in a Word". Documentary by Vera Baghiroli, QOOB TV, July 22, 2008.
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“I am the conscience of the 21st Century.”
-- Martin FirrellSource : International Herald Tribune, November 24, 2005.
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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.”
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“Everyone is as confused as I am.”
-- Martin FirrellSource : "The Question Mark Inside". Documentary, 2009.
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“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?”
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“Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!”
-- Martin FirrellSource : The London Evening Standard, August 09, 2001.
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“Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.”
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“It is in the nature of truth not to be at fault.”
-- Martin FirrellSource : International Herald Tribune, September 19, 2005.
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“Art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.”
-- Martin FirrellSource : "Art in a Word". Documentary by Vera Baghiroli, QOOB TV, July 22, 2008.
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“War is always a failure. It means we've failed in diplomacy and we've failed in talking to one another.”
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“The other side of reverence is loathing.”
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“Women are much more honourable than men.”
-- Martin FirrellSource : Text projections onto the Guards Chapel, Household Division of the British Army, London, www.martinfirrell.com. November 2009.
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“There's not a lesbian hero that everybody can relate to.”
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“Security is no replacement for liberty.”
-- Martin FirrellSource : "Keep the Faith". Text projections in the Duveen Gallery, Tate Britain, London, 2006.
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“This is the way the world really ends: not with whimper but a desperate chuckle.”
-- Martin FirrellSource : "The Question Mark Inside". Text projections onto St Paul's Cathedral, London, 2008.
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“If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.”
-- Martin FirrellSource : "Keep the Faith". Text projections in the Duveen Gallery, Tate Britain, London, 2006.
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“I want to live in a city where immigration is seen as a new source of strength.”
-- Martin FirrellSource : The Guardian, July 22, 2006.
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“The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers.”
-- Martin FirrellSource : "The Question Mark Inside". Text projections onto St Paul's Cathedral, London, 2008.
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“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'.”
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“Never fall for someone with a body to diet for.”
-- Martin FirrellSource : Time Out, December 12, 2001.
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“Everybody should be entitled to one lie, one failing, one infidelity.”
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“When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey.”
-- Martin FirrellSource : The Guardian, February 25, 2006.
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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.”
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“Revolutions have always started in cafés.”
-- Martin FirrellSource : The Independent on Sunday, April 18, 2004.
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“I want to live in a city where the police don't shoot you.”
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“Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world?”
-- Martin FirrellSource : "The Question Mark Inside". Documentary, 2009.
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“Ageing is a privilege not a predicament”
-- Martin FirrellSource : Article by Caitlin Moran, The Times, June 18, 2007.
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“Different is not wrong.”
-- Martin FirrellSource : Time Out, November 17, 2006.
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“Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.”
-- Martin FirrellSource : "Art in a Word". Documentary by Vera Baghiroli, QOOB TV, July 22, 2008.
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“I have a fundamental faith in folk, that people are interesting and good.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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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 FirrellSource : "The Question Mark Inside". Documentary, October 30, 2009.
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“I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution.”
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“I want to live in a city where the people who make the rules have to live by them.”
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