Martin Mull Quotes

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After leaving an exhibition, I'll find that my perception of the outside world has been changed. Instantly. My experience has been altered by the artists's vision, and I will see things that I haven't seen before.

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

Martin Mull
Most visual art is, to some extent, distillation. You've drawn perimeters; the canvas gives you a top, bottom, and sides. But those edges aren't there when you walk down the street. If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate.

Martin Mull
Most of us in the fine arts have what are known as day gigs. Instead of driving a cab to get enough money for my oils, I was able to host a talk show and be in films. The remuneration for cab driving was not even comparable.

Martin Mull
The parts of me that I like best are the parts that surprise me. But in the classical sense of the word, I'm not sure that I do love myself. I tolerate myself.

Martin Mull
Every once in a while, I'll take a look at the world. I'll read the entire newspaper or watch hours of TV news, and I'll feel as if the whole planet may well be getting a little dumber and feeding its own dumbness, as if life is getting cheaper.

Martin Mull
I believe there's an intrinsic irreverence in the American psyche, and when something comes along that offers even an echo of that irreverence, people respond to it.

Martin Mull