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If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.
Philip Johnson
I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.
Philip Johnson
Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
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
All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
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 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
Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.
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.
Philip Johnson
The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.
Philip Johnson
The painters have every advantage over us today...Besides being able to tear up their failures-we never can seem to grow ivy fast enough-their materials cost them nothing. They have no committees of laymen telling them what to do. They have no deadlines, no budgets. We are all sickeningly familiar with the final cuts to our plans at the last moment. Why not take out the landscaping, the retaining walls, the colonnades? The building would be just as useful and much cheaper. True, an architect leads a hard life-for an artist.
Philip Johnson
I like Houston. It's the last great 19th-century city. Houston has a spirit about it that is truly American, an optimism. People there aren't afraid to try something new.
Philip Johnson
I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.
Philip Johnson
I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.
Philip Johnson
The future of architecture is culture.
Philip Johnson
Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.
Philip Johnson
There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.
Philip Johnson
I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.
Philip Johnson
We all see the world differently. And thank God for that. Otherwise, what a boring world this would be.
Philip Johnson
I used to think that each phase of life was the end. But now that my view on life is more or less fixed, I believe that change is a great thing. In fact, it's the only real absolute in the world.
Philip Johnson
Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.
Philip Johnson
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