Selected Quotes
- I am the conscience of the 21st Century.
- quoted in the International Herald Tribune (24 November 2005)
- Revolutions have always started in cafés.
- quoted in The Independent on Sunday (18 April 2004)
- When the world’s run by fools it’s the duty of intelligence to disobey.
- quoted in The Guardian (June 2003)
- 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 (June 2003)
- All men are dangerous.
- Keep the Faith text projections, Duveen Gallery, Tate Britain
- Power is always temporary.
- Six Women text projections, main stage, Royal Opera House
- Let’s speak of justice as present in the world, as independent and self-perpetuating.
- Complete Hero text projections onto The Guards Chapel, London
- Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world?
- quoted in the documentary The Question Mark Inside broadcast by Sky Arts 30 October 2009
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“The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.”
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“I quote another man’s saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.”
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