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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?
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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When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.
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I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.
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Glibness will get your anywhere.
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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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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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American megalomania is largely responsible for the growth of the Skyscraper School.
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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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