Peter Max Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I walked out with 14 advertising projects.”

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

“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.”