Martin Mull
Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.Collection: Parenting
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.Collection: Architecture
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.Collection: Morning
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.Collection: Teacher
The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.Collection: Sports
Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.
A cult following is a nice way of saying very few people like you.
It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with.
Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.
Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
If there is some art involved, I'd like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.
I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.
It really is a day job, and it also seems to have virtually disappeared-with no remorse, really. It gives me more time to paint.
It seems like the opportunity just increases exponentially. There doesn't seem to be much stopping.
It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.
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.
To be able to get up and be in my studio and work all day is a great joy.
You'd be surprised at how undemanding acting is.
Its hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin withCollection: Mirrors
Why be influenced by a person when you already are one?Collection: Persons
Music helps set a romantic mood. Imagine her surprise when you say, "We don't need a stereo - I have an accordion."Collection: Music
If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate.Collection: Art
I was involved in the Great Folk Music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on.Collection: Scare
Yeah, I just finished a novel. Man those things take forever to read.Collection: Men
I don't jog. It makes the ice jump right out of my glass.Collection: Glasses
What's the point of cleaning up your act if you don't have an act?Collection: Cleaning
Human beings are 70% water and with some the rest is colagenCollection: Clever
In the eyes of my dog, I'm a man.Collection: Dog
The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.Collection: Zips
Hollywood is high school with money.Collection: School
You'd be surprised at how undemanding acting isCollection: Acting
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 goodCollection: Morning
I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter.Collection: Artist
If there is some art involved, Id like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.Collection: Art
Like a guide dog, paintings help you see.Collection: Dog