Peter Max Quotes

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.

Seven days a week, I'm always drawing, doodling, or painting, whether I'm in the studio or on a plane.

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

I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them.

In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.

I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize that seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that... but that's what it did.

I found I have to stay painting.

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

I went to art college. I like to be creative. I use food as my medium at the moment but it could easily be illustrations in the future, or something else.

I stay in the studio diligently. I'm always trying to create.

I keep a steady supply of paintbrushes and canvases. I like to paint. I'm not some great artist.

I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.

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

Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.

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

When I make a picture, I make love.

I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.

I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

That's when I feel really excited about a painting. When it starts to feel real, when it feels like it has a personality.

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 had a place with a studio where I could paint I'd be happy.

If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.