Peter Max Quotes

Art-making was part of my daily life from a very young age, and I still love that kind of everyday art-making.

My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

Do not think that I have stopped painting, for at any moment, I am liable to paint a good picture.

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

I really want to continue doing art. I would love to go back to doing paintings one day.

I paint daily with watercolors on 5-by-7-inch pads that are small enough for me to take them everywhere.

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

If I'm painting, I paint every day. I'll be up in the studio from 8:00 in the morning to 8:00 at night.

I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician.

Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.

I still do a lot of drawing on a daily basis.

I found I have to stay painting.

In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.

I love to draw and paint - that's what makes me happy.

I am very much an artist. I like painting and collaging.

I would always be painting and drawing. If I was stuck at home, I was in the basement working on a painting.

I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

Over the years I always did some water colors, and I did a series of pictures of drawings. I always did it during a period of time that was slow in the photo business, but in essence it was always frustrating because I'd get started, and then it would be time to get back to work and I wouldn't get anywhere with the painting.

Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

I've been working in sculpture and painting since 1920.

I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days.

I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.