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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 of my contemporaries in art, and he knew when he'd done a good line. When he didn't, he threw it away. I wish I'd thrown away some of mine.
— Philip Johnson
Tags: wish, know, art, good

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I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?
— Philip Johnson
Tags: buildings, beach, hate, you
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.
— Philip Johnson
Tags: feel, go, architecture, you
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
— Philip Johnson
Tags: space, design, architecture, great
The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.
— Philip Johnson
Tags: small, being, mouth, consistency
I'm about four skyscrapers behind.
— Philip Johnson
Tags: four, about, behind
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