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Architecture is art, nothing else.

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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
Architecture
Art
Else
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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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American megalomania is largely responsible for the growth of the Skyscraper School.
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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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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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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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The best thing to do with water is to use a lot of it.
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Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.
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Pick very few objects and place them exactly.
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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 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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Glibness will get your anywhere.
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Some of the opera houses in Italy had to be burnt down because people could neither see nor hear. They gave up seeing years ago, but they did enjoy the music.
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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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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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I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.
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Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
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