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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.
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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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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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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There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.
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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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Architecture is art, nothing else.
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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.
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American megalomania is largely responsible for the growth of the Skyscraper School.
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Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
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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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We do pretty much whatever we want to.
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I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.
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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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I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people.
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I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it to make something new of it not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.
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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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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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Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing.
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The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.
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Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.
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