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Architecture is art, nothing else.

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
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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Scientific naturalism is a story that reduces reality to physical particles and impersonal laws, [and] portrays life as a meaningless competition among organisms that exist only to survive and reproduce.
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Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
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Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing.
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Pick very few objects and place them exactly.
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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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So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.
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