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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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Philip Johnson
Age: 98 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 8
Died: 2005
Died: January 25
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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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When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.
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Architecture is art, nothing else.
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I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people.
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American megalomania is largely responsible for the growth of the Skyscraper School.
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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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There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.
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