Top 42 Quotes & Sayings by Peter Max

All day long, I'm creative, and the second I get a little tired of any given medium, I just shut that area down and go to the next room. I just go do something else.

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.

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

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.

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.

When I am in New York, you know, my studio is big, about 20,000 to 25,000 square feet, and I have painting rooms and rooms I do etching in, rooms I do lithographs.

Some people remember me for my color; some people remember me as a friend.

The '60s were an amazing time.

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.

Angela King is a lovely person with a tremendous sense of art.

I am very concerned about our planet and am about respecting all living things.

I walked out with 14 advertising projects.

I stay busy, and it feels good.

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.

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 of age.

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

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.

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

I met Carl Sagan quite a few times - a fantastic and amazing person. I love him. Neil deGrasse Tyson is a good friend, too.

There's nothing like New Orleans. When it comes back, it will be a tremendous highlight for America.

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.

It was a special thrill to meet, paint, and hang out with Ringo Starr.

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

I've done 44 portraits of Obama because he's the 44th president.

I kind of love my work. I really love the pieces I do.

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

When I wake up, I can't wait to get to the studio, go into the paint room.

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.

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

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 artists like Lionel Richie, Ronnie Wood, Sia, Steven Tyler, Swizz Beatz, Taylor Swift, James Moody, The Fifth Dimension, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and Michael Jackson. It makes me smile thinking about each one of them.

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.

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

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

I know colors like some people know a melody. And the tunes of my favorite musicians energizes me when I work.

I studied realism when I was in art school.

Wherever your joy is, go after it, ... pretty ladies.

Don't worry about mistakes. Making things out of mistakes, that's creativity.

I'm just wowed by the universe. I'm just glad to do something I love to do. I love color, I love painting, I love shapes, I love composition, I love the people around me. I'm adoring it all. My legacy is in the hands of other people.

If I didnt choose art, I would have become an astronomer.

I would say, the new hipness is #yoga.

I have a history of saving animals. I started years ago with a cow.

I love meeting life halfway.