Author: Philip Johnson

Quotes

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

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

- Philip Johnson

I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring.

I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring.

- 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.

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

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

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

- Philip Johnson

The future of architecture is culture.

The future of architecture is culture.

- Philip Johnson

To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.

To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.

- Philip Johnson

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

- 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.

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

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.

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

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