Words matter. These are the best Peter Max Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I love the title of ‘hippy’ because it means someone who is thinking cosmic and futuristic.
Angela King is a lovely person with a tremendous sense of art.
I met Carl Sagan quite a few times – a fantastic and amazing person. I love him. Neil deGrasse Tyson is a good friend, too.
Seven days a week, I’m always drawing, doodling, or painting, whether I’m in the studio or on a plane.
I appreciate America as being the most artistic nation because of its diversity.
I grew up in Shanghai ’til I was 10 or 11, with one year in Tibet. When I was 5 or 6 years old, the American radio station came to Shanghai, and I used to love bebop and jazz, but I didn’t know where it came from.
It was a special thrill to meet, paint, and hang out with Ringo Starr.
When I wake up, I can’t wait to get to the studio, go into the paint room.
I met Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin when I hung out with Michael Lang just before the Woodstock Festival. They were as charismatic in person as they were on stage.
I’ve done 44 portraits of Obama because he’s the 44th president.
I have 17 full-time archivists working for me who put away in books all the diversity of artwork I do, from drawing to etching to monotypes to prints to lithographs.
Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums and follow your heart.
I know colors like some people know a melody. And the tunes of my favorite musicians energizes me when I work.
I don’t even think about maintaining a relevance. I just think about what do I want to paint, what am I gonna do now, what am I gonna do later.
Some people remember me for my color; some people remember me as a friend.
There’s nothing like New Orleans. When it comes back, it will be a tremendous highlight for America.
I’m more American than anything else. I grew up in China, but I was fulfilled at a young age by American music. It was my biggest inspiration.
I never know what I’m going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I’m just the middleman.
I am very concerned about our planet and am about respecting all living things.
I stay busy, and it feels good.
When I put my brush to canvas, I never know what I’m going to paint. It’s like when you’re walking down the street with your hands in your pockets, humming a tune, you don’t know what you’ll be humming five minutes from now.
My biggest love is still planets and stars. If I hadn’t become an artist, I’d be an astronomer because I still love it so much.
As I create art, it is like a love affair. My days go by loving what I do.
I do not view myself as a psychedelic person but as a yogi. Although most link the Beatles with bringing awareness of yoga to the public, it was myself who actually brought yoga into the mainstream in the United States.
I kind of love my work. I really love the pieces I do.
If I didn’t choose art, I would have become an astronomer.
I walked out with 14 advertising projects.
I studied realism when I was in art school.
Marlon Brando came up to me many, many years ago. He wanted me to do a little doodle for him on the back of an airline ticket.
The ’60s were an amazing time.