Martin Mull Quotes

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

The temple of art is built in words.

Imagery is like music.

Art is a spirit seeking flesh but finding words.

Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language.

Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.

What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.

The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about what's in style, what's current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem that has some of those qualities.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.

The sculptor who deals with form seeks to imprison beauty in a marble statue that will withstand the ravages of time during millenniums; but a marble statue is cold and speaks to but a few of the most evolved who are able to infuse the statue with their own life.

Life has to have the plenitude of art.

I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

There were a series of moments when I decided that art was important, and it was an important vehicle for me to express my interest in spaces.

I wouldn't call myself a synaesthete in the sense that Nabokov was. But I'll talk about a sound as being cold blue or dark brown. For descriptive purposes, yes, I often see colors when I'm listening to music and think, 'Oh, there's not enough sort of yellowy stuff in here, or not enough white.'

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.