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Early unsuccessess shouldn't bother anybody because it happens to absolutely everybody.

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Philip Johnson
Age: 98 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 8
Died: 2005
Died: January 25
Architect
Art Historian
Cleveland
Ohio
Philip Cortelyou Johnson
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We do pretty much whatever we want to.
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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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I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.
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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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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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Pick very few objects and place them exactly.
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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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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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So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.
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Architecture is art, nothing else.
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Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.
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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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The best thing to do with water is to use a lot of it.
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Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.
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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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[Evolution] doesn't mean God-guided, gradual creation. It means unguided, purposeless change. The Darwinian theory doesn't say that God created slowly. It says that naturalistic evolution is the creator, and so God had nothing to do with it.
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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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I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people.
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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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