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Glibness will get your anywhere.

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Philip Johnson
Age: 98 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 8
Died: 2005
Died: January 25
Architect
Art Historian
Cleveland
Ohio
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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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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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I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
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Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.
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Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.
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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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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 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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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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There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.
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I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work. The press comes up with this stuff and it sticks. I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning.
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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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The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.
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Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.
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The best thing to do with water is to use a lot of it.
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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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[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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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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