Philip Johnson Quotes - Page 3

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

  Philip Johnson

  Cities, Houston, Building

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• 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

  Sleep, Bed, Nine

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

  Philip Johnson

  Children, Frank, Havens

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• 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 worked out awfully well in the State Theater. I'm a 'straight-in' man myself; I'm too nervous, I like to know where I am. I also like to know where I'm going.

  Philip Johnson

  Moving, Men, Space

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• The best thing to do with water is to use a lot of it.

  Philip Johnson

  Water, Use, Things To Do

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• In our greatest universities, naturalism - the doctrine that nature is all there is - is the virtually unquestioned assumption that underlies not only natural science but intellectual work of all kinds.

  Philip Johnson

  Scary, Intellectual, Doctrine

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• In our universal experience unintelligent material processes do not create life

  Philip Johnson

  Scary, Process, Materials

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• [Evolution] doesn't mean God-guided, gradual creation. It means unguided, purposeless change. The Darwinian theory doesn't say that God created slowly. It says that naturalistic evolution is the creator, and so God had nothing to do with it.

  Philip Johnson

  Mean, Scary, Evolution

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• Some of the opera houses in Italy had to be burnt down because people could neither see nor hear. They gave up seeing years ago, but they did enjoy the music.

  Philip Johnson

  Years, People, House

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• I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.

  Philip Johnson

  Design, Wish, Cathedrals

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• I think the collectors have made an enormous contribution, not only to the market but to painters themselves... These people that buy, that set standards, make everyone else itch to emulate.

  Philip Johnson

  Thinking, People, Made

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