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" I am very happy working for my European brands. My legacy isn't going to be a museum. Yet I would be very good at it. It's so painful. It's like everything - the same old guys - Herzog & de Meuron, Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano - they don't pick original people. "

Peter Marino

Legacy

I Am

Happy

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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. "

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" 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. "

" I simply loathe the crude 1960s distinctions between commerce and art. For me, Warhol and pop obliterated all of those separations - that was the whole point of the Brillo Boxes and Campbell's Soup Cans. And believe it or not, in 2009, moronic journalists are still saying to me, 'Your work is so commercial.' "

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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. "

" If something's a high-margin product, I understand its importance to the store. "

" One of my first fashion clients was Calvin Klein. We did his first freestanding stores. He was very exact and precise. But talk about high-fashion people who brand themselves! "

" Ginza! Where I've done two Chanel towers and Louis Vuitton and Dior stores. I just feel at home there. "

" I collect art like other people eat pizza. I can't get enough of it. I need a constant source of inspiration. "

" The Peninsula - it's a combination of great service and good design. "

" I don't sell anything. So, I have a personal image, but I think that's because I'm from an art background, and I'm an artist, and I think most artists do have personal images. I consider myself more in that category of the way an artist had a look. "

" Not enough people enjoy working with color, which delights and inspires me. "

" Universal human characteristics are a good base for great art. "

" There's a very important aspect to all my work, now more than ever, which is tying the interior design and architecture with the art. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm really a fighter against modernism equaling brutalism. "

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

" Publicity doesn't really get me anything. Clients are not going to hire me for a $100 million building because I have a brand. They really want the product. "

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Want

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" What frustrates me is florists who put everything at the same size on the table. I like it when there's mountains and valleys. "

" Creating work for the time that one lives in means no retro thinking. It can and hopefully does mean timelessness. "

" Motorcycle garb is the way I looked to Warhol. Then came the Armani suits. "

" 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. "

" When I opened Chanel in London, they were happy. People would go, 'Oh, I just came in to see it. It's so beautiful.' And you leave with a positive attitude toward the brand. Now, you don't really get that online. You don't go, like, 'Wow.' "

" 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. "

" I got into architecture via fine arts, and I was a sculptor myself, and I have always involved artists in my projects. When I say 'involved,' I mean I always bring artists in at the beginning projects before they're built and say, 'Will you do a room? Will you do a sculpture floating in mid-air? Will you make a chimney? Will you do something?' "