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Philip Johnson Quotes

Glibness will get your anywhere Picture Quote #1

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original Picture Quote #1

In our universal experience unintelligent material processes do not create life Picture Quote #1

The future of architecture is culture Picture Quote #1

There’s no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes Picture Quote #1

Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space Picture Quote #1

Don’t build a glass house if you’re worried about saving money on heating Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people Picture Quote #1

The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man. One must eat, one must have shelter. Next to religious worship itself, it is the spiritual handmaiden of our deepest convictions Picture Quote #1

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I guess I can’t be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I’m a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner Picture Quote #1

If architects weren’t arrogant, they wouldn’t be architects. I don’t know a modest good architect Picture Quote #1

Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven’s ‘Eighth’ does? Picture Quote #1

From the very fact the universe is on the whole orderly, in a manner comprehensible to our intellect, is evidence that we and it were fashioned by a common intelligence Picture Quote #1

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So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes Picture Quote #1

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Glibness will get your anywhere (Philip Johnson Quotes) I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original (Philip Johnson Quotes) In our universal experience unintelligent material processes do not create life (Philip Johnson Quotes) The future of architecture is culture (Philip Johnson Quotes) There’s no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes (Philip Johnson Quotes) Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful (Philip Johnson Quotes) 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 (Philip Johnson Quotes) 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 Quotes) All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space (Philip Johnson Quotes) Don’t build a glass house if you’re worried about saving money on heating (Philip Johnson Quotes) 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 (Philip Johnson Quotes) 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 (Philip Johnson Quotes) 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 (Philip Johnson Quotes) The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds (Philip Johnson Quotes) 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 (Philip Johnson Quotes) 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 (Philip Johnson Quotes) I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people (Philip Johnson Quotes) The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man. One must eat, one must have shelter. Next to religious worship itself, it is the spiritual handmaiden of our deepest convictions (Philip Johnson Quotes) I guess I can’t be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring (Philip Johnson Quotes) 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 (Philip Johnson Quotes) I’m a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner (Philip Johnson Quotes) If architects weren’t arrogant, they wouldn’t be architects. I don’t know a modest good architect (Philip Johnson Quotes) Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven’s ‘Eighth’ does? (Philip Johnson Quotes) From the very fact the universe is on the whole orderly, in a manner comprehensible to our intellect, is evidence that we and it were fashioned by a common intelligence (Philip Johnson Quotes) So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes (Philip Johnson Quotes)

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