Artist Quotes by Peter Max

I studied realism when I was in art school.

— Peter Max

If I didn't choose art, I would have become an astronomer.

— Peter Max

As I create art, it is like a love affair. My days go by loving what I do.

— Peter Max

I love so many different types of music - hard rock, bebop, jazz fusion, R&B. And I've loved meeting and painting so many amazing…

— Peter Max

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…

— Peter Max

The '60s were an amazing time.

— Peter Max

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,…

— Peter Max

I met Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin when I hung out with Michael Lang just before the Woodstock Festival. They were as charismatic in…

— Peter Max

I appreciate America as being the most artistic nation because of its diversity.

— Peter Max

I do not view myself as a psychedelic person but as a yogi. Although most link the Beatles with bringing awareness of yoga to…

— Peter Max

Jimi Hendrix, the Who, the Dead, Zeppelin, the Beatles - I paint to this music all of the time.

— Peter Max

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…

— Peter Max

Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums and follow your heart.

— Peter Max

Seven days a week, I'm always drawing, doodling, or painting, whether I'm in the studio or on a plane.

— Peter Max

I love the title of 'hippy' because it means someone who is thinking cosmic and futuristic.

— Peter Max