Peter Max Quotes

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

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

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

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

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#5. I walked out with 14 advertising projects.

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#6. 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.

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

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#8. 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.

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

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#10. I love meeting life halfway.

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#11. The '60s were an amazing time.

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#12. 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.

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#13. 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.

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

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

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#16. I would say, the new hipness is #yoga.

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