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I think the collectors have made an enormous contribution, not only to the market but to painters themselves... These people that buy, that set standards, make everyone else itch to emulate.
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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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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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 guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people.
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Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.
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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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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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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 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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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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Early unsuccessess shouldn't bother anybody because it happens to absolutely everybody.
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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 best thing to do with water is to use a lot of it.
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We do pretty much whatever we want to.
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Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.
Philip Johnson
There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.
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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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Glibness will get your anywhere.
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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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