Best 24 quotes of Martin Firrell on MyQuotes

Ageing is a privilege not a predicament.

Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.

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

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.

Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!

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

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.

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.

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

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'.

I have a fundamental faith in folk, that people are interesting and good.

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.

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

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

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

Never fall for someone with a body to diet for.

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

Security is no replacement for liberty.

There's not a lesbian hero that everybody can relate to.

This is the way the world really ends: not with whimper but a desperate chuckle.

War is always a failure. It means we've failed in diplomacy and we've failed in talking to one another.

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

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

Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.