Martin Mull Quotes

I kind of just lucked into and fell into the other profession. It was really just an outgrowth of the fact that when I was in art school, I had no money whatsoever.

In the eyes of my dog, I'm a man.

Hollywood is high school with money.

I try to not get to the point where one is making wallpaper, or simply painting money. I want to make sure that I am at least trying to weigh myself down, that there's a challenge each time.

Like a guide dog, paintings help you see.

It seems like the opportunity just increases exponentially. There doesn't seem to be much stopping.

I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.

Yeah, I just finished a novel. Man those things take forever to read.

I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.

If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate.

You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good.

Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.

Human beings are 70% water and with some the rest is colagen

Some of the pictures I must say every now and then I just think are going to be funny. When it gets that much, you might as well just pull out all the stops and make it more of a burlesque.

I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of view, their histories, that there's no telling what that message might be.

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

If there is some art involved, I'd like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.

I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television and movies and records.

I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.

I was involved in the Great Folk Music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on.

What's the point of cleaning up your act if you don't have an act?

Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.