Glibness will get your anywhere.

- Philip Johnson

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 yes to som…

- Philip Johnson

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

- Philip Johnson

The future of architecture is culture.

- Philip Johnson

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

- Philip Johnson

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

- Philip Johnson

Architecture is art, nothing else.

- 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

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

- Philip Johnson