Peter Max

“The '60s were an amazing time.”

“Angela King is a lovely person with a tremendous sense of art.”

“If I didn't choose art, I would have become an astronomer.”

“My biggest love is still planets and stars. If I hadn't become an artist, I'd be an astronomer because I still love it so much.”

“I love so many different types of music - hard rock, bebop, jazz fusion, R&B. And I've loved meeting and painting so many amazing artists like Lionel Richie, Ronnie Wood, Sia, Steven Tyler,...”

“I grew up in Shanghai 'til I was 10 or 11, with one year in Tibet. When I was 5 or 6 years old, the American radio station came to Shanghai, and I used to love bebop and jazz, but I didn't k...”

“Marlon Brando came up to me many, many years ago. He wanted me to do a little doodle for him on the back of an airline ticket.”

“Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums and follow your heart.”

“I love the title of 'hippy' because it means someone who is thinking cosmic and futuristic.”

“When I put my brush to canvas, I never know what I'm going to paint. It's like when you're walking down the street with your hands in your pockets, humming a tune, you don't know what you'll...”

“I met Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin when I hung out with Michael Lang just before the Woodstock Festival. They were as charismatic in person as they were on stage.”

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

“I do not view myself as a psychedelic person but as a yogi. Although most link the Beatles with bringing awareness of yoga to the public, it was myself who actually brought yoga into the mai...”

“It was a special thrill to meet, paint, and hang out with Ringo Starr.”