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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
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Philip Cortelyou Johnson
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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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The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.
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Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.
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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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Glibness will get your anywhere.
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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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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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So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.
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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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We do pretty much whatever we want to.
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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 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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Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.
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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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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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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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Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
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All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
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Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.
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