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" 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. "

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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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I do really modern with materials that are so luxurious that they're, like, baroque. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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 talk about myself in the third person. When I start doing that, you'll know I'm having an out-of-body experience. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "