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Philip Johnson
American
July 8, 1906
Architect
I'm about four skyscrapers behind.
Philip Johnson
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I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.
Philip Johnson
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Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.
Philip Johnson
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Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.
Philip Johnson
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If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.
Philip Johnson
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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.
Philip Johnson
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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.
Philip Johnson
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I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral.
Philip Johnson
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