Top 44 Quotes by Philip Johnson

About Philip Johnson

These are some quotes by American author Philip Johnson Architect, who lived between July 8, 1906 and January 25, 2005.

I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.

I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.

Philip Johnson

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

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

Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.

Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.

Philip Johnson

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

I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

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

Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.

Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.

Philip Johnson

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior 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

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

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