Peter Marino Quotes

I never set out to do interior design; I just do what I do, and some people come along and want me to work with them.

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

When I started my own practice, I was criticized, not because I was doing product design but because, like Le Corbusier, I was insisting on paintings in all of my buildings. I would paint wall murals in the houses that I designed, just as he did in the '20s and '30s.

I'm an interior designer from the soul. It's not about just putting things in a room. It's much deeper and broader. It's about self-discovery.

I love to paint. And I have another profession - an interior design business.

I have been constantly working on the interiors of my homes in Delhi, Goa, Dubai, Mumbai, and the Red Chillies Building. I had been designing homes, too. Having a background in art, graphic design, and charcoal helped me in my work immensely.

There's a big difference between decorators and designers and the training is very different.

I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.

I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

I call architecture frozen music.

I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint.

I am but an architectural composer.

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

There is a voice, and there is a DNA to how I design.

I wish you didn't have to design so often. Try to do quality and cut down on quantity. I think fashion is very, very important.

I spearhead interior design for all Trump projects.

I've always loved design. I loved imagining the way people could live in a space, that's what I connected to.

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?'

Ultimately, the artistic part of architecture has always interested me.

I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.