Philip Johnson Quotes

I’m about four skyscrapers behind.

Some of the opera houses in Italy had to be burnt down because people could neither see nor hear. They gave up seeing years ago, but they did enjoy the music.

The delicate operation of separating an American from the four-wheeled part of him has to be performed with tact.

The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.

You can’t learn architecture any more than you can learn a sense of music or of painting. You shouldn’t talk about art, you should do it.

It’s got to be clear, back in your own mind, that serving the client is one thing and the art of architecture another.