Peter Marino Quotes

My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.

I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

While I'm interested in philosophy, I find all the different theories out there somewhat difficult to get a firm grip on. Movies and novels, on the other hand, are easy to understand. So what I like to do is use pop cultural ephemera of all kinds as tools to help me try to understand philosophy.

Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant.

You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.

The critic should describe, and not prescribe.

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.

I don't often go to curator or artist walk-throughs of exhibitions. For a critic, it feels like cheating. I want to see shows with my own eyes, making my own mistakes, viewing exhibitions the way most of their audience sees them.

What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.

When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed off about it.

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.

Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.

I want to explore my design philosophy in different mediums, and I'm very interested in architecture.

I have a fondness for making paintings that go beyond just having a conversation about art for art's sake or having a conversation about art history. I actually really enjoy looking at broader popular culture.

I'm really into architecture, I'm a member of the Brutalist Appreciation Society; I'm a member of the Postmodern Society. I write letters to save buildings.

I think there's enough TV that makes people feel dumb out there.

My approach to portraiture is conceptual.