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I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.
Philip Johnson
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Philip Johnson
Age: 98 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 8
Died: 2005
Died: January 25
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When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.
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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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I used to think that each phase of life was the end. But now that my view on life is more or less fixed, I believe that change is a great thing. In fact, it's the only real absolute in the world.
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Glibness will get your anywhere.
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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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Some of the opera houses in Italy had to be burnt down because people could neither see nor hear. They gave up seeing years ago, but they did enjoy the music.
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There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.
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Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing.
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We do pretty much whatever we want to.
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The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build.
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I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it to make something new of it not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.
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The best thing to do with water is to use a lot of it.
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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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The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.
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I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.
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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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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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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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Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.
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