60 Quotes by Martin Mull

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.

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

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.

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

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

Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance.

To be able to get up and be in my studio and work all day is a great joy.

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.