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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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" 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've benefited enormously from an arts education and a music education in New York. When they cut the programs for funding, I was devastated. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "