Quotes from Martin Mull

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

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.

Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

Human beings are seventy percent water, and with some the rest is collagen.

The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.