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> [To sum up the state of architecture in America: ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-johnson/to-sum-up-the-state-of-architecture-in-america-ninety-percent-of-the/)

[Philip Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-johnson/)

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## More by Philip Johnson

> [Architecture is the art of how to waste space.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-johnson/architecture-is-the-art-of-how-to-waste-space/)

[Philip Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-johnson/)

> [I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-johnson/i-m-a-chameleon-so-changeable-i-see-myself-as-a-gadfly-and-a/)

[Philip Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-johnson/)

> [ Scientific naturalism is a story that reduces reality to physical particles and impersonal laws, \[and\] portrays life as a meaningless competition among organisms that… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-johnson/scientific-naturalism-is-a-story-that-reduces-reality-to-physical/)

[Philip Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-johnson/)

> [I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-johnson/i-hate-vacations-if-you-can-build-buildings-why-sit-on-the-beach/)

[Philip Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-johnson/)

> [I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-johnson/i-like-to-be-buttoned-onto-tradition-the-thing-is-to-improve-it-twist/)

[Philip Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-johnson/)

> [So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-johnson/so-now-the-floodgates-are-open-to-the-delight-of-pure-form-whatever/)

[Philip Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-johnson/)

> [You cannot not know history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-johnson/you-cannot-not-know-history/)

[Philip Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-johnson/)

> [Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-johnson/purpose-is-not-necessary-to-make-a-building-beautiful/)

[Philip Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-johnson/)

> [I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-johnson/i-haven-t-any-wisdom-just-a-child-like-everybody-else-i-m-not-as/)

[Philip Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-johnson/)

> [Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-johnson/don-t-build-a-glass-house-if-you-re-worried-about-saving-money-on/)

[Philip Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-johnson/)

> [In our greatest universities, naturalism - the doctrine that nature is all there is - is the virtually unquestioned assumption that underlies not only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-johnson/in-our-greatest-universities-naturalism-the-doctrine-that-nature-is/)

[Philip Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-johnson/)

> [The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-johnson/the-automobile-is-the-greatest-catastrophe-in-the-entire-history-of/)

[Philip Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-johnson/)

> [I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-johnson/i-wish-someone-would-ask-me-to-design-a-cathedral/)

[Philip Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-johnson/)

> [We do pretty much whatever we want to.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-johnson/we-do-pretty-much-whatever-we-want-to/)

[Philip Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-johnson/)

> [Some of the opera houses in Italy had to be burnt down because people could neither see nor hear. They gave up seeing years…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-johnson/some-of-the-opera-houses-in-italy-had-to-be-burnt-down-because-people/)

[Philip Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-johnson/)

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