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How Quotes by Philip Johnson
- 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…
- Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
- 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…
- 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…
- Processionalism is primary - how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects of spaces as you move about in them. That's…
- 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…
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