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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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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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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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Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.
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When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.
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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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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 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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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 automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.
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Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.
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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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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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There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.
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