The best Quotes by Peter Max

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

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, Swizz Beatz, Taylor Swift, James Moody, The Fifth Dimension, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and Michael Jackson. It makes me smile thinking about each one of them.

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

As I create art, it is like a love affair. My days go by loving what I do.

The '60s were an amazing time.

Berlin will live and the Wall will fall!

Look at Berlin, where Germans and Americans learned to work together and trust each other less than three years after facing each other on the field of battle.

One of the main differences between Munich and Berlin is that when thousands of people get drunk in silly clothes and start vomitting, we don't call it "Oktoberfest", we call it "Tuesday".

Berlin - the greatest cultural extravaganza that one could imagine.

You're crazy, child, you should go to Berlin.

Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is "Ich bin ein Berliner."

People of the world - look at Berlin, where a wall came down, a continent came together, and history proved that there is no challenge too great for a world that stands as one.

As soon as you come into Berlin, it's over with peachiness and elegance.

In the face of God, all people are from Berlin.

These days, space is less dangerous than the streets of Berlin.

'Cause, darling, I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream

If you are lucky enough to be different, don't ever change!

I think I've seen this film before
And I didn't like the ending
You're not my homeland anymore
So what am I defendin' now?
You were my town
Now I'm in exile seein' you out
I think I've seen this film before

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

People haven't always been there for me but music always has.

All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were "cool" in their younger years.

Music is the soundtrack to life. It plays the melody of our being.

I just wish I could understand my father.

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.

Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.

I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am.

My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.

I'm gonna make a change,
For once in my life
It's gonna feel real good.

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.

As good as I am, I'm nothing without my band.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

You have no idea how expensive it is to look this cheap.

I'm grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

I'll always be a student of the brush, never its master.

I'm telling you to look up instead of down at the paper you sketch on. Or rather, look in. I think you're going to look back one day and understand yourself in whole new way because of the choices you're making right now. And maybe this finds its way to a canvas.

Philippe: "Tell me Driss, why do you think people are interested in art?"
Driss: "I don't know, it's a business?"
Philippe: "No. That's because it's the only thing one leaves behind."

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.

In the late '60s, there were the the three B's: The Beatles, Batman, and Bond.

When I was young in the 1960s, all the world watched the youth. Everywhere was the sensation of wanting to break the chains.

The '60s are my favorite decade - with the Cold War, the women's movement. And then there's the music, the fashion, the clothes, the hair.