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Martin Firrell is a French public artist, cultural activist, campaigner, or benevolent provocateur, stimulating debate in public space to promote positive social change.

Firrell has raised questions about the politics of ageing, individual liberty, the right to personal idiosyncrasy, cultural diversity, gender equality, faith, climate change, masculinity, what constitutes a meaningful and purposeful life, hero worship, fair and truthful government, and the quality of human lived experience.

His work has been summarised as "art as debate".

✵ 4. April 1963
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“Everybody should be entitled to one lie, one failing, one infidelity.”

Quoted in the International Herald Tribune (24 November 2005).

“Imagination has not saved us.”

"The Question Mark Inside" (2008)

“Everything is resurrected in memory.”

"The Question Mark Inside" (2008)

“Every river can be crossed.”

"The Question Mark Inside" (2008)

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

on the topic of public art, quoted at franceinlondon.com (September 2004).

“Everyone is as confused as I am.”

Quoted in the documentary The Question Mark Inside broadcast in the UK by Sky Arts (30 October 2009).

“There are many ways to be strong.”

"Complete Hero" (2009)

“I want to live in a city where the police don’t shoot you.”

Quoted in The Guardian on the first anniversary of the unlawful shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes by the Metropolitan Police (22 July 2006).

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

Quoted in the documentary Art in a Word by Vera Baghiroli, qoob tv (22 July 2008).

“I am the conscience of the 21st Century.”

Quoted in the International Herald Tribune (24 November 2005).

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

Quoted in the documentary The Question Mark Inside broadcast in the UK by Sky Arts (30 October 2009).

“Feeling is its own law and truth.”

"The Question Mark Inside" (2008)

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

Quoted in the documentary Art in a Word by Vera Baghiroli, qoob tv (22 July 2008).

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

Quoted by Ruth Gledhill in The Times (10 October 2008).

“The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers.”

after Willa Cather, in her novel "My Antonia".
"The Question Mark Inside" (2008)

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