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" 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! "

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" 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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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

Want

Product

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

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

" 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

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

" 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

Thinking

Think

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'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 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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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?' "

" 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. "

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

" Architects have big egos. We like to think we're creating the pyramids and they're going to be around for thousands of years. And it's a joke because they're not even going to last our lifetime. I built a home for umpteen gazillion dollars on a gorgeous piece of property in Palm Beach, and 11 years later somebody else bought it and knocked it down. "

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