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I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

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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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Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.
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I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people.
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We do pretty much whatever we want to.
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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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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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Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
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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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Glibness will get your anywhere.
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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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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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Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.
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Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.
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Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
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When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.
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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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Architecture is art, nothing 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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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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