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Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
— Philip Johnson
I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.
— Philip Johnson
We do pretty much whatever we want to.
— Philip Johnson
There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.
— Philip Johnson
There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives me satisfaction.
— Philip Johnson
I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.
— Philip Johnson
Architecture is art, nothing else.
— Philip Johnson
Early unsuccessess shouldn't bother anybody because it happens to absolutely everybody.
— Philip Johnson
The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build.
— Philip Johnson
Dullness is the enemy.
— Philip Johnson
You cannot not know history.
— Philip Johnson
The best thing to do with water is to use a lot of it.
— Philip Johnson
I'm about four skyscrapers behind.
— Philip Johnson
Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.
— Philip Johnson
I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.
— Philip Johnson
Pick very few objects and place them exactly.
— Philip Johnson
All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
— Philip Johnson
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
So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.
— Philip Johnson
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
I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people.
— Philip Johnson
I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?
— Philip Johnson
Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.
— Philip Johnson
The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.
— Philip Johnson
You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.
— Philip Johnson
American megalomania is largely responsible for the growth of the Skyscraper School.
— Philip Johnson
Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.
— Philip Johnson
I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?
— Philip Johnson
I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.
— Philip Johnson
Glibness will get your anywhere.
— Philip Johnson
We all see the world differently. And thank God for that. Otherwise, what a boring world this would be.
— Philip Johnson
Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing.
— Philip Johnson
If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.
— Philip Johnson
The future of architecture is culture.
— Philip Johnson
