Quotes About Peter Max

#1. I then discovered the Pop Art of Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Peter Max. I was inspired that these fun and colourful images could be presented seriously on canvas.

Joe Average

#2. I told somebody once, 'You don't want the Herschel that plays football ... babysitting your child. When I am competing, I am a totally different person.'

Herschel Walker

#3. I love meeting life halfway.

Peter Max

#4. With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

James Thurber

#5. You [priests] are called 'another Christ.'

Mother Teresa

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

Peter Max

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Peter Max

#10. One story I've been trying to write for years, and haven't been able to finish, is about a face I saw, just a glimpse of a face, in a max security prison in North Carolina. I'm still trying to understand what I saw in that guy's face.

Peter Orner

#11. If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order.

Vinoba Bhave

#12. [...] but personally if I never drink another crocodile pee I shall be a happy man.'
'Crocodile pee?'
'I always assumed that that was the main ingredient in Gatorade, but I may be wrong.

M.J. Trow

#13. You guys be safe," said Veek. She gave Nate a crooked smile. "Don't do anything too stupid, Shaggy." "Like going down into a hundred-year-old mine shaft?" "Yeah," she said. "That'd pretty much max out the stupid-meter.

Peter Clines

#14. To be a good manager of people requires both fairness and bluntness.

James Cook

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

Peter Max

#16. She's strong," he told his mom. "She'll be fine."

"Even strong people need help." Wilma said it with soft but firm tones that he couldn't argue with.

Brenda Minton

#17. Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

Maya Angelou

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

Peter Max

#19. We've all seen great actors and actresses who are missing a certain chemistry. And it's not about getting along or not getting along.

Johnny Galecki

#20. Don't you get it?' said Max. 'You're not praying, you're just ... wishing. And wishes don't come true.

Peter Clines

#21. You are not the body. You are the immensity and infinity of consciousness.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#22. Out of the lions' den for Daniel, the prison for Peter, the whale's belly for Jonah, Goliath's shadow for David the storm for the disciples, disease for the lepers, doubt for Thomas, the grave for Lazarus, and the shackles for Paul. God gets us through stuff.

Max Lucado

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

Peter Max

#24. I watch things that are fun, or funny, or interesting.

Martha Plimpton

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

Peter Max

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

Peter Max

#27. If the Army wants witches and satanists in its ranks, then it can do it without Christians in those ranks. It's time for the Christians in this country to put a stop to this kind of nonsense. A Christian recruiting strike will compel the Army to think seriously about what it is doing.

Paul Weyrich

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

Peter Max

#29. Let grace microwave your cold heart. "Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" (2 Peter 3:18). When you do, you'll find yourself joining the ranks of the truly wealthy. You'll be rich with grace.

Max Lucado

#30. I walked out with 14 advertising projects.

Peter Max

#31. 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

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

Peter Max

#33. Hyun Joong hyung listens to music so loud that the neighbors are telling us to move out.

Kim Kyu-jong

#34. 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

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

Peter Max

#36. We trust as we love, and where we love. If we love Christ much, surely we shall trust him much.

Thomas Brooks

#37. Shalt thou give law to God, shalt thou dispute
With Him the points of liberty who made
Thee what thou art and formed the pow'rs of Heav'n
Such as He pleased and circumscribed their being?

John Milton