Martin Firrell Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Martin Firrell

  War, Mean, Talking

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

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

  Martin Firrell

  People, Interesting, Fundamentals

  Article by Ruth Gledhill, The Times, October 10, 2008.

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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.

  Martin Firrell

  Art, Believe, Everyday

  International Herald Tribune, September 19, 2005.

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

  Martin Firrell

  Art, Soul, Fart

  franceinlondon.com, September 2004.

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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.

  Martin Firrell

  Art, Cake, Humanity

  International Herald Tribune, September 19, 2005.

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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?

  Martin Firrell

  Responsibility, Accepting, Existence

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• I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution.

  Martin Firrell

  Revolution, Kind

  "The Question Mark Inside". Documentary, broadcast in the UK by Sky Arts, October 30, 2009.

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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'.

  Martin Firrell

  War, Giving, Democracy

  "Art in a Word". Qoob TV, July 22, 2008.

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

  Martin Firrell

  World, Way, Desperate

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

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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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• 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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