All architects want to live beyond their deaths.... -Philip Johnson

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All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

Philip Johnson , Architect
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Architecture is art, nothing else....
The future of architecture is culture....
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 archit...
All architects want to live beyond their deaths....
Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating....

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As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a ...
Even when I wrote death metal songs for a death metal record, I was always trying to do my best to make it as catchy as possible because that's how I ...
I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death....
I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God....
Jesus was loyal to his apostles, with full knowledge of their cowardice. He was loyal to the poor, accepting the criticism of the Pharisees, so the de...
If the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is to live, our babies must live. Our mothers must choose life. If we refuse to answer the cry of mercy fr...
I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, '...
The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a...
I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry....
Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount....