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I haven't any wisdom - just a...

I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.

Philip Johnson 46 quotes

In my own work, I'd say I'm a...

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, although that's a popular approach. First, I think of every building in history that has been similar in purpose. Then I think of the functional program - that's a major part of the study.

Philip Johnson 46 quotes

Anybody can build a building,...

Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?

Philip Johnson 46 quotes

Architecture is basically the...

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

Philip Johnson 46 quotes

I hate vacations. If you can ...

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

Philip Johnson 46 quotes

I'm a chameleon, so changeabl...

I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner.

Philip Johnson 46 quotes

I used to think that each pha...

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 46 quotes

Dullness is the enemy. ...

Dullness is the enemy.

Philip Johnson 46 quotes

I guess I can't be a great ar...

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 46 quotes

I like the thought that what ...

I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral.

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I got everything from someone...

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

Philip Johnson 46 quotes

All architecture is shelter, ...

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 46 quotes

How does an artist know when ...

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 of my contemporaries in art, and he knew when he'd done a good line. When he didn't, he threw it away. I wish I'd thrown away some of mine.

Philip Johnson 46 quotes

I guess I want to make money ...

I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people.

Philip Johnson 46 quotes

It is wonderful to be in the ...

It is wonderful to be in the country in a glass house, because no matter what happens out there, you're nice and safe, you know, cuddled in your little bed, and there it is, raging storms, snowing - wonderful.

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Processionalism is primary - ...

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.

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The people with money to buil...

The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build.

Philip Johnson 46 quotes

The first complete sentence o...

The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.

Philip Johnson 46 quotes

Concrete you can mold, you ca...

Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.

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You're going to change the wo...

You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.

Philip Johnson 46 quotes

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