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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
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Philip Cortelyou Johnson
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I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.
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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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Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.
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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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Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.
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Glibness will get your anywhere.
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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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Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
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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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[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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Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing.
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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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I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people.
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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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There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.
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We do pretty much whatever we want to.
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The best thing to do with water is to use a lot of it.
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Architecture is art, nothing else.
Philip Johnson
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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The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.
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