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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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" 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

You

Way

Building

" 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. "

" I'm about four skyscrapers behind. "

" 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

Improve

Tradition

" Glibness will get your anywhere. "

" Architecture is the art of how to waste space. "

" All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space. "

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

" 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

Get

" I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original. "

" In my own work, I'd say I'm a classicist, but I look everywhere for my solutions. I don't study the toilet-living habits of my clients, although that's a popular approach. First, I think of every building in history that has been similar in purpose. Then I think of the functional program - that's a major part of the study. "

" The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build. "

" Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston. "

" 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. "

" Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful. "

" Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper. "

" Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were. "

" I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life. "

" I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people. "

Philip Johnson

Money

Want

" 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. "

" The future of architecture is culture. "

" Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating. "

" I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects. "

" I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach? "

" Dullness is the enemy. "

Philip Johnson

Dullness

Enemy

" 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. "

" I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner. "

" I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright. "

" The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds. "

" I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I? "

Philip Johnson

Art

Why