All Philip Johnson Quotes
- How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning was the greatest… Art
- I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not… Any
- 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 of my clients,… Approach
- 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… All
- 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… Awfully
- 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… Age
- We all see the world differently. And thank God for that. Otherwise, what a boring world this would be. All
- Dullness is the enemy. Dullness
- You cannot not know history. History
- I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects. Always Think
- Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say… Architects
- I'm about four skyscrapers behind. Behind