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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" I have this 'Alice in Wonderland' idea in my head that a garden should be a place of wonderment. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The French use gardens to show grandeur and the English to show how things have endured for hundreds of years, but for me, they're all about fantasy. "

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

" 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. "

" We have a thousand hydrangea plants bordering the house, and they were all supposed to be pink, but a handful of them keep turning purple. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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?' "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "