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… — Peter Max Copy Share Image
My mother recognized my artistic talent and looked for someone to teach me to grow my abilities. She found an artist on the street who sent his daughter, Umba, over to begin teaching me when I was only three years… — Peter Max Copy Share Image
As I create art, it is like a love affair. My days go by loving what I do. — Peter Max Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I appreciate America as being the most artistic nation because of its diversity. — Peter Max Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Jimi Hendrix, the Who, the Dead, Zeppelin, the Beatles - I paint to this music all of the time. — Peter Max Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
