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Building Quotes by Philip Johnson
- When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.
- I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?
- Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.
- Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.
- 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…
- There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.
- I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
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