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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

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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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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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How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning was the greatest of my contemporaries in art, and he knew when he'd done a good line. When he didn't, he threw it away. I wish I'd thrown away some of mine.

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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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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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Dullness is the enemy.

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There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.

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You cannot not know history.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Architect

Born: July 8th, 1906

Died: January 25th, 2005

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