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The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.
Philip Johnson
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Philip Johnson
Age: 98 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 8
Died: 2005
Died: January 25
Architect
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Cleveland
Ohio
Philip Cortelyou Johnson
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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 guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people.
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Architecture is art, nothing else.
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When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.
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Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.
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Early unsuccessess shouldn't bother anybody because it happens to absolutely everybody.
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Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.
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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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So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.
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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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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 haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.
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