There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach? — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
To sum up the state of architecture in America: ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No,… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
In my own work, I'd say I'm a classicist, but I look everywhere for my solutions. I don't study the toilet-living habits… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner. — Philip Johnson Copy Share
Scientific naturalism is a story that reduces reality to physical particles and impersonal laws, [and] portrays life as a meaningless competition among organisms that… — Philip Johnson Copy Share
I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it;… — Philip Johnson Copy Share
So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes. — Philip Johnson Copy Share
I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright. — Philip Johnson Copy Share
Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating. — Philip Johnson Copy Share
In our greatest universities, naturalism - the doctrine that nature is all there is - is the virtually unquestioned assumption that underlies not only… — Philip Johnson Copy Share
The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture. — Philip Johnson Copy Share
Some of the opera houses in Italy had to be burnt down because people could neither see nor hear. They gave up seeing years… — Philip Johnson Copy Share
