Martin Mull Quotes

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.

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.

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 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 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.

Around 1980, I Went Back To Painting With A Vengeance.

Like A Guide Dog, Paintings Help You See.

To Be Able To Get Up And Be In My Studio And Work All Day Is A Great Joy.

I Sometimes Question Whether I'm Even An Artist Or Just A Painter.

If There Is Some Art Involved, Id Like It To Be That It Came Through The Cracks Of Daily Work.

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.

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