What frustrates me is florists who put everything at the same size on the table. I like it when there’s mountains and valleys. Peter Marino Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Peter Marino Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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?’ Peter Marino Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Peter Marino Read Quote
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. Peter Marino Read Quote
All bronzes are made to be touched. Bronze is a sensual ‘living’ material. The sweat and oil of your palms adds to the patination. Peter Marino Read Quote
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. Peter Marino Read Quote
