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" 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
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" 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
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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
Look
Creativity
Happiness
" I do really modern with materials that are so luxurious that they're, like, baroque. "
Peter Marino
Luxurious
Baroque
Like
" 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
" I'm really a fighter against modernism equaling brutalism. "
Peter Marino
Modernism
Against
Really
" 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
" If something's a high-margin product, I understand its importance to the store. "
Peter Marino
Importance
Understand
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. "
Peter Marino
Say
You
Look
" 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
" 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
" Creating work for the time that one lives in means no retro thinking. It can and hopefully does mean timelessness. "
Peter Marino
Work
Creating
Mean
" 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
" Universal human characteristics are a good base for great art. "
Peter Marino
Great
Base
Human
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
Me
" 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. "
Peter Marino
Work
Day
Creative
" 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. "
Peter Marino
People
Sorry
Think
" Not enough people enjoy working with color, which delights and inspires me. "
Peter Marino
Enjoy
Which
People
" 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. "
Peter Marino
Half
Now
Someone
" That was really the Fifties for me - that whole spirit of flicking the paint on the canvas. "
Peter Marino
Fifties
Me
Spirit
" 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. "
Peter Marino
Good
Change
People
" The Peninsula - it's a combination of great service and good design. "
Peter Marino
Good
Peninsula
Great
" 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! "
Peter Marino
Fashion
Clients
Brand
" 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 believe that women would crawl across broken glass to get a cool pair of shoes. "
Peter Marino
Women
Believe
Shoes
" 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
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