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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. "

Peter Marino

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

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

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Spirit

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

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

" 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. "

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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. "

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Want

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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Fantasy

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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 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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