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 to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.
Glibness will get your anywhere. - Philip Johnson
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
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…
I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original. - Philip Johnson
I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.
The future of architecture is culture. - Philip Johnson
The future of architecture is culture.
I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach? - Philip Johnson
I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?
Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper. - Philip Johnson
Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.
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
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
Architecture is the art of how to waste space. - Philip Johnson
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Architecture is art, nothing else. - Philip Johnson
Architecture is art, nothing else.
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