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.

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.

Surely architecture is the organization for pleasure of enclosed space. And what more magnificent enclosure than a town, a place, a place where the spirit is cuddled, made serene, made proud, happy, or excited depending on the ceremony, the day, the hour.

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