Top 30 Peter Max Quotes

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I love the title of 'hippy' because it means someone wh

I love the title of ‘hippy’ because it means someone who is thinking cosmic and futuristic.
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Angela King is a lovely person with a tremendous sense of art.
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I met Carl Sagan quite a few times – a fantastic and amazing person. I love him. Neil deGrasse Tyson is a good friend, too.
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Seven days a week, I’m always drawing, doodling, or painting, whether I’m in the studio or on a plane.
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I appreciate America as being the most artistic nation because of its diversity.
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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.
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It was a special thrill to meet, paint, and hang out with Ringo Starr.
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When I wake up, I can’t wait to get to the studio, go into the paint room.
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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.
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I’ve done 44 portraits of Obama because he’s the 44th president.
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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.
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Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums and follow your heart.
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I know colors like some people know a melody. And the tunes of my favorite musicians energizes me when I work.
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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.
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Some people remember me for my color; some people remember me as a friend.
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There’s nothing like New Orleans. When it comes back, it will be a tremendous highlight for America.
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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.
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I never know what I’m going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I’m just the middleman.
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I am very concerned about our planet and am about respecting all living things.
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I stay busy, and it feels good.
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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.
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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.
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As I create art, it is like a love affair. My days go by loving what I do.
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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.
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I kind of love my work. I really love the pieces I do.
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If I didn’t choose art, I would have become an astronomer.
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I walked out with 14 advertising projects.
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I studied realism when I was in art school.
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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.
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The ’60s were an amazing time.
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