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Peter Max

Profession : Artist

Birth : October 19, 1937

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.

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I know colors like some people know a melody. And the tunes of my favorite musicians energizes me when I work.

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

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I've done 44 portraits of Obama because he's the 44th president.

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I appreciate America as being the most artistic nation because of its diversity.

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The '60s were an amazing time.

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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.

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

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

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There's nothing like New Orleans. When it comes back, it will be a tremendous highlight for America.

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I walked out with 14 advertising projects.

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When I am in New York, you know, my studio is big, about 20,000 to 25,000 square feet, and I have painting rooms and rooms I do etching in, rooms I do lithographs.

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All day long, I'm creative, and the second I get a little tired of any given medium, I just shut that area down and go to the next room. I just go do something else.

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I have 17 full-time archivists working for me who put away in books all the diversity of artwork I do, from drawing to etching to monotypes to prints to lithographs.

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I kind of love my work. I really love the pieces I do.

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

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My mother recognized my artistic talent and looked for someone to teach me to grow my abilities. She found an artist on the street who sent his daughter, Umba, over to begin teaching me when I was only three years of age.

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

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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 mainstream in the United States.

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Jimi Hendrix, the Who, the Dead, Zeppelin, the Beatles - I paint to this music all of the time.

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