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Martin Firrell Biography

Martin Firrell (born 4 April 1963 in Paris, France) a French cultural activist, campaigner, public artist, or benevolent provocateur, stimulating debate in public space to promote positive social change.

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

Desperate, Ends, Way, Whimper, World

I am the conscience of the 21st Century.

21St, 21St Century, Century, Conscience

Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!

Calamitous, Collapse, Defeat, Mediocre

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

Cities, City, Immigration, Source, Want

Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.

Add, Adds, Conscience, Our Time, Writing

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

Failed, Failure, Mean, Talking, War

Everyone is as confused as I am.

Confused, Everyone

Revolutions have always started in cafés.

Cafes, Revolution, Revolutions

Security is no replacement for liberty.

Liberty, Replacement, Replacements, Security

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.

Art, Cake, Humanity, Local, Public, Realized

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

Men, Reasonable, Running, War, World

Never fall for someone with a body to diet for.

Body, Diet, Diets, Fall

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

Crisp, Crisps, Everything, Quentin, Said, Yes

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.

Art, Help, Real, Set, Think, Thinking

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'.

Democracy, Experiment, Giving, Living, War

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

Correct, Cruel, Ifs, Stupid, Things

The other side of reverence is loathing.

Loathing, Reverence, Side, Sides

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.

Artist, Behave, Rare, Think, Thinking, Way

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

Cruelty, Disobedience, Duty, Moral, Obedience

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?

Accepting, Changes, Existence, Life, Miraculous, Responsibility

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