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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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?' "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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