American - Architect | July 8, 1906 - January 25, 2005
Dullness is the enemy.
Philip Johnson
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All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
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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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You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.
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I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?
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To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.
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It is wonderful to be in the country in a glass house, because no matter what happens out there, you're nice and safe, you know, cuddled in your little bed, and there it is, raging storms, snowing - wonderful.
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Architecture is art, nothing else.
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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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You cannot not know history.
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I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner.
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Glibness will get your anywhere.
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