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Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.
Philip Johnson
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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
Phillip Johnson
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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 got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.
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Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing.
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Early unsuccessess shouldn't bother anybody because it happens to absolutely everybody.
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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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Glibness will get your anywhere.
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In my own work, I'd say I'm a classicist, but I look everywhere for my solutions. I don't study the toilet-living habits of my clients, although that's a popular approach. First, I think of every building in history that has been similar in purpose. Then I think of the functional program - that's a major part of the study.
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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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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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There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.
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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 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 automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.
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Pick very few objects and place them exactly.
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American megalomania is largely responsible for the growth of the Skyscraper School.
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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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In our greatest universities, naturalism - the doctrine that nature is all there is - is the virtually unquestioned assumption that underlies not only natural science but intellectual work of all kinds.
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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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