Consistency Quote by Philip Johnson

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

Philip Johnson

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Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

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

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I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it;…

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So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.

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You cannot not know history.

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Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.

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

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

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The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.

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The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each side should know that frequently uncertainty, compromise, and incoherence are the essence of policymaking. Yet each tends to ascribe to the other a consistency, foresight, and coherence…

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