Quotes from Martin Mull

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

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

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.

You'd be surprised at how undemanding acting is.

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

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

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

A cult following is a nice way of saying very few people like you.

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.

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 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.

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

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 don't jog. It makes the ice jump right out of my glass.

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

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

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

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with.

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.

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

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

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.

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