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" 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

Art

Believe

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

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

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

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

Peter Marino

Fifties

Spirit

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My parents spent a lot of money so I wouldn't sound like I came from Queens. I went to speech class. "

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

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

" 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 want to be the first person to animate bags - everything done for handbags bores me to tears - I want to make it more playful. "

Peter Marino

Person

Want

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

" 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. "

" 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! "

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

" 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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Thinking

Think

" 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. "

Peter Marino

How

Fantasy

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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?' "

" 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.' "