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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.
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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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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I used to think that each phase of life was the end. But now that my view on life is more or less fixed, I believe that change is a great thing. In fact, it's the only real absolute in the world.
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Early unsuccessess shouldn't bother anybody because it happens to absolutely everybody.
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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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Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing.
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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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Pick very few objects and place them exactly.
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In my own work, I'd say I'm a classicist, but I look everywhere for my solutions. I don't study the toilet-living habits of my clients, although that's a popular approach. First, I think of every building in history that has been similar in purpose. Then I think of the functional program - that's a major part of the study.
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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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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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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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Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
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Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
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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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There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.
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Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.
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Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.
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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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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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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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