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" I do really modern with materials that are so luxurious that they're, like, baroque. "
Peter Marino
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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. "
Peter Marino
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Happiness
" 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. "
Peter Marino
Street
Live
More
" 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. "
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" Universal human characteristics are a good base for great art. "
Peter Marino
Great
Base
Human
" 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. "
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People
Sorry
Think
" Anytime I see an unusual combination of colors or patterns or texture, I buy it. "
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See
Colors
I See
" I believe that women would crawl across broken glass to get a cool pair of shoes. "
Peter Marino
Women
Believe
Shoes
" 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. "
Peter Marino
Experience
Know
Start
" 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.' "
Peter Marino
Me
Art
Believe
" 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. "
Peter Marino
Myself
Artist
Art
" Not enough people enjoy working with color, which delights and inspires me. "
Peter Marino
Enjoy
Which
People
" 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. "
Peter Marino
Want
Intellectual
Love
" 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. "
Peter Marino
Money
Women
Fashion
" I collect art like other people eat pizza. I can't get enough of it. I need a constant source of inspiration. "
Peter Marino
Need
Eat
Art
" 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. "
Peter Marino
Me
Want
Product
" That was really the Fifties for me - that whole spirit of flicking the paint on the canvas. "
Peter Marino
Fifties
Me
Spirit
" 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. "
Peter Marino
Look
Kind
Director
" Koishikawa Korakuen Garden - one of Tokyo's oldest Japanese gardens, and one of the best spots for viewing the cherry blossoms. "
Peter Marino
Cherry
Best
Tokyo
" 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
" 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. "
Peter Marino
More
Thinking
Think
" What frustrates me is florists who put everything at the same size on the table. I like it when there's mountains and valleys. "
Peter Marino
Everything
Table
Size
" 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?' "
Peter Marino
Beginning
Architecture
Myself
" The Peninsula - it's a combination of great service and good design. "
Peter Marino
Good
Peninsula
Great
" My parents spent a lot of money so I wouldn't sound like I came from Queens. I went to speech class. "
Peter Marino
Speech
Class
Money
" I have this 'Alice in Wonderland' idea in my head that a garden should be a place of wonderment. "
Peter Marino
Idea
Place
Should
" 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. "
Peter Marino
Design
Best
You
" 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. "
Peter Marino
Last
Down
Beach
" 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. "
Peter Marino
Now
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" 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. "
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" Motorcycle garb is the way I looked to Warhol. Then came the Armani suits. "
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