Peter Max Quotes & Sayings

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. — Peter Max

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

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

The '60s were an amazing time. — Peter Max

Wherever your joy is, go after it, ... pretty ladies. — Peter Max

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

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

I walked out with 14 advertising projects. — 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 to monotypes to prints to lithographs. — Peter Max

I love meeting life halfway. — Peter Max

I would say, the new hipness is #yoga. — Peter Max

I kind of love my work. I really love the pieces I do. — Peter Max

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. — Peter Max

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

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