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.

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

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

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

The '60s were an amazing time.

I walked out with 14 advertising projects.

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

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

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.

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.

If you are not in the media today, then you do not exist.

In earlier times there was one king and thousands of artists painting his palace. Now you’ve got thousands of artists painting for millions of people.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I studied realism when I was in art school.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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