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I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people.

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Philip Johnson
Age: 98 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 8
Died: 2005
Died: January 25
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Cleveland
Ohio
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Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.
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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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[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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When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.
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Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.
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American megalomania is largely responsible for the growth of the Skyscraper School.
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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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There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.
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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 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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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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The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.
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Processionalism is primary - how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects of spaces as you move about in them. That's worked out awfully well in the State Theater. I'm a 'straight-in' man myself I'm too nervous, I like to know where I am. I also like to know where I'm going.
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Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
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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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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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Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.
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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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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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