Peter Max Quotes

I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.

As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.

Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.

Color is an intense experience on its own.

I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tune, it gives me inspiration to write a better tune.

Music, I think, he makes me feel like music

It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?

I did not want to go onstage and play Led Zeppelin songs; there has to be more than that. I wanted to create a complete experience of what Led Zeppelin means to me, growing up around them and being part of it all my life.

Something different happened to me when I started to write music to images. It was a feeling of excitement and connection and a sense of being in the right place that I never had before.

I usually know the general emotion of a song, or the general feeling of it, and then I think I just get so excited by the act of recording. I love that process so much that I feel like if I knew exactly what I wanted I'd arrive at something too soon.

The thing that makes me want to proceed and finish a song is when it really touches me and makes me feel something.

When I write a song, the music comes from my spirit, which is very playful and optimistic, but then the lyrics come from my head, which is in a different space.

When I write music, it's very strange: maybe it's normal, but I see things in songs in different colors.

Any piece of art has the potential to emotionally touch you and nudge you.

The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions.. the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them. And if you say you are moved only by their color relationships then you miss the point.

purple does something strange to me

In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually isn’t highly developed in poets. Whether you take a walk in the woods with a painter, or go to a museum with one, through them you notice shapes, colors, harmonies, relationships that enhance your own seeing.

There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.

Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.

Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena.... But when they come to the aesthetics of their work, when they aim at a particular effect on the mind or on the senses, the rules dissolve into nothing but vague ideas.

A certain color tones you up. It's the concentration of timbres.

I think myself that, rather like books, music is meant to enter into the brain, well via your ears rather than your eyes but, it's - I think a lot more should be left to the imagination.

By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately.

In general, therefore, color is a means of exerting a direct influence upon the soul. Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many strings. The artist is the hand that purposefully sets the soul vibrating by means of this or that key.