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" I always look for inspiration, and the creativity of artists is an essential element to my life, my work, and my happiness. "

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" My father's house was on East 55th Street on 1st and 2nd Avenues. I'm fifth-generation Marino in the East 50s - I live on 57th Street. I can't be more East 50s. "

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" Anytime I see an unusual combination of colors or patterns or texture, I buy it. "

" I work 12 hours a day, seven days a week - and I love it. I'm creative. I feel fulfilled. I'm from a solidly lower-middle-class background; I'm not from the world that I'm in now. So I appreciate it a lot. I've really got a rich, full life. "

" People in Shanghai make a lot more money than the farmers in the rice paddies. The rice-paddy farmers are not buying Louis Vuitton bags, but the upwardly mobile ones in Shanghai, who are all working in Wall Street-type firms, are infinitely better-dressed than people in the West. Their women take this fashion thing seriously. "

" Design-wise, I look at everything. If I don't personally design it, I'll review it. I'm kind of creative director of the firm. "

" My name is on the door, and I care very much about the design that gets put out. I'm sorry, but it has to be my way. You learn that by working for people like I. M. Pei. You think he isn't a design tyrant? Is Calvin Klein a tyrant? When it came to his dresses, he had to be. "

" I do really modern with materials that are so luxurious that they're, like, baroque. "

" If you want to come up with a really original design idea, and you want to capture a whole new design direction, perhaps the best way to arrive at that is not by acting and thinking and doing like everybody else. That's all. "

" I've benefited enormously from an arts education and a music education in New York. When they cut the programs for funding, I was devastated. "

" Nine out of nine architects start with a sketch, and then they say, 'What should we make it out of?' I start from the bottom up - what should it be made out of - and then I worry about what should it look like. The material, the color of the material, the way it feels, and the way you respond to it is every bit as valid as the form or the shape. "

" I believe that women would crawl across broken glass to get a cool pair of shoes. "

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" Architects have big egos. We like to think we're creating the pyramids and they're going to be around for thousands of years. And it's a joke because they're not even going to last our lifetime. I built a home for umpteen gazillion dollars on a gorgeous piece of property in Palm Beach, and 11 years later somebody else bought it and knocked it down. "

" I loathe when architects only analyze architecture in intellectual, nonvisual ways. I really love direct response, and that's very pop. I don't want to discuss abstract transparencies with a bunch of kooks. "

" I like more the fact that I like to think out of the box. Thinking out of the box goes along with dressing out of the box and living out of the box. "

" In 1991, if someone came in with a $1 million budget for a boutique, I would have fainted. Nobody spent even half that. But now, the bar has risen very high. "

" I don't talk about myself in the third person. When I start doing that, you'll know I'm having an out-of-body experience. "

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" All bronzes are made to be touched. Bronze is a sensual 'living' material. The sweat and oil of your palms adds to the patination. "

" That was really the Fifties for me - that whole spirit of flicking the paint on the canvas. "

" It's a good marriage because each of us is what we are, allows the other one to be themselves, and appreciates each other for the right reason. You know, it's rare that you'll find two people who don't try to change the other person and let everyone be what they are. "

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" Koishikawa Korakuen Garden - one of Tokyo's oldest Japanese gardens, and one of the best spots for viewing the cherry blossoms. "

" If I need a pair of tennis shorts, I'll buy them online. I don't really care. Not going to go and try on a pair and see how my bum looks. Who cares? But for things that you care about - I mean, a jacket and a pair of trousers, you've got to try them on. "