Martin Firrell Quotes

I have absolutley no limits on what I intent to create.

You only get one album. You only get one single. You get one shot in music. But I have a million different dreams. Why can't I go out and try to achieve them all? Who are you to say I can't?

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.

Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.

I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.

What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.

I'm not belittling the art world. Not at all. I take it quite seriously, actually. But the logic of art is a vanguard logic that pressures art to incorporate the quotient of risk.

In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.

Beauty, which I admit to being in pursuit of, is an extremely suspect word among many in the art world. But I don't think you can get along without it. It's the confirmation of meaning in life.

You're free to do anything you want with your company. It's more like art. You don't have to follow any norms. It's an expression of how you feel the world should be. When you make a company, that's your little place to make your own little utopia.

While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.

Outside is the world; it's there. Pop Art looks out into the world.

I've been slagged off completely by the art world and I don't know whether fancy being slagged off by the literary world as well. It's just too much.

I quite like it to be risky. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet. I've arrived at that point in the art world where there really is a chair that you sit in.

I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are - rammed down my throat. A man has to have a gizzard like an ostrich to digest all the brass-tacks and wire nails of modern art theories.

It would nice to live in a world where art can just be art!

I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is the only such realm.

I have a set of images that go around the world in an art gallery installation. Each of them have different audiences, and they kind of each elucidate the subject in a slightly different way, and they ping off of each other.

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.

Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.

[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

I tend not to work with a specific person in mind. Art is a matter of statistics. It's not about individuals. It's about people.

Art originates in play - in improvisation, experiment, and fantasy; it remains forever, in its deepest instincts, playful and spontaneous, an exercise of the imagination analogous to the exercising of the physical body to no purpose other than ecstatic release.

We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.