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Philip Johnson
Philip Johnson
American Architect
Born: Jul 8, 1906
Died: Jan 25, 2005
Architecture Art Build Building Buildings You
Related authors: Christopher Alexander Frank Gehry Frank Lloyd Wright Louis Kahn Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Maya Lin Neri Oxman Thom Mayne
Architecture is the art of how to waste space. Philip Johnson
Art Architecture Space How Waste
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
You Change Yourself World Try Change The World Give Point Instead Well Go Up Going Certain Certain Point
Dullness is the enemy. Philip Johnson
Enemy Dullness
Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space. Philip Johnson
Art Architecture Interior Space Design Interiors Organizing Basically
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. Philip Johnson
Thought Looking Looking Back Beauty Back Earth Embellish Thrill Shapes Generations Like Look Cathedral Greater Leave Get Same Here
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
Great Architecture Space Design Contains Shelter Stimulates Persons
All architects want to live beyond their deaths. Philip Johnson
Death Live Architects Beyond Deaths Want
If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect. Philip Johnson
Good Arrogant Architect Architects Know Were Modest
I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner. Philip Johnson
Myself Changeable See Chameleon
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. Philip Johnson
You Architecture Walls Back Our Press Marvelous Feel Talking How Concrete Go Line Were Surprised Lines Any After Room Straight Straight Line Should Body Mold Your Your Body Why
The future of architecture is culture. Philip Johnson
Future Culture Architecture
Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper. Philip Johnson
House Doing Than Much Skyscraper Harder
There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun. Philip Johnson
Age Old Old Age Having More Years Years Ago Than Just Different Fun Now Thing
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
Work Art Me Build Building Potential Interest Should Why
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 different periods. Each age has its own. Philip Johnson
Food Me Age Sex Drive Own Monuments Periods How Denigrate Differ Different Regardless Each Desire
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. Philip Johnson
History Plucked Something Something New Point Onto New Like Make Tradition Deny Improve Any Riches Mold Thing Twist
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
Work History First Building Own Every Think Approach Everywhere Say Has-Been Solutions Similar My Own Purpose Habits Part Study Major Look Major Part Although Clients Been Then Popular Functional Program
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
You Tears Build Building Doors Way Some Putting Does How How Many Times Been Beethoven Times Anybody Moves Eighth Many
I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright. Philip Johnson
Wisdom Great Everybody Everybody Else Else Frank Frank Lloyd Wright Wright Like Child Child-Like Any Just
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
Art Good Wish Mine Some Threw Thrown He Knew Catch Contemporaries Know Greatest Does How Line Artist Done Just Painted Away
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
Today People Money Pride Build Sense Our Corporations Why
Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful. Philip Johnson
Beautiful Building Purpose Make Necessary
I get between nine and ten hours of sleep. Go to bed at 8:30 and get up at 6:00 or 6:30 if I oversleep. Philip Johnson
Nine Ten Between Hours Bed Go Up Get Sleep
There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes. Philip Johnson
Feeling Mistakes Worse Seeing Buildings Than Realizing
Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston. Philip Johnson
Best Saved City Houston Buildings Undoubtedly Showcase
You cannot not know history. Philip Johnson
History You Know Cannot
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