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There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.
Philip Johnson
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Philip Johnson
Age: 98 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 8
Died: 2005
Died: January 25
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Cleveland
Ohio
Philip Cortelyou Johnson
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We do pretty much whatever we want to.
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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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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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American megalomania is largely responsible for the growth of the Skyscraper School.
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Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.
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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 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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Pick very few objects and place them exactly.
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Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
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I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.
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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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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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