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Philip Johnson Inspirational Quotes (42)

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Scientific naturalism is a story that reduces reality to physical particles and impersonal laws, [and] portrays life as a meaningless competition among organisms that exist only to survive and reproduce.
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Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.
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Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.
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I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work. The press comes up with this stuff and it sticks. I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning.
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There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.
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Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.
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There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.
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So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.
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All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
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Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.
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Processionalism is primary - how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects of spaces as you move about in them. That's worked out awfully well in the State Theater. I'm a 'straight-in' man myself I'm too nervous, I like to know where I am. I also like to know where I'm going.
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I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?
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Pick very few objects and place them exactly.
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Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
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In our greatest universities, naturalism - the doctrine that nature is all there is - is the virtually unquestioned assumption that underlies not only natural science but intellectual work of all kinds.
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I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.
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American megalomania is largely responsible for the growth of the Skyscraper School.
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Early unsuccessess shouldn't bother anybody because it happens to absolutely everybody.
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I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring.
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I get between nine and ten hours of sleep. Go to bed at 8:30 and get up at 6:00 or 6:30 if I oversleep.
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I think the collectors have made an enormous contribution, not only to the market but to painters themselves... These people that buy, that set standards, make everyone else itch to emulate.
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Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
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Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business.
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Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.
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