American - Architect | July 8, 1906 - January 25, 2005
Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.
Philip Johnson
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There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives me satisfaction.
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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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I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.
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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 wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.
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If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.
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