Quote #4
The people with money to build today are corporations -- they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build.
More from Philip Johnson
- Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
- I am a whore and I am paid very well for high-rise buildings.
- Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
- 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 t…
- I like Houston. It's the last great 19th-century city. Houston has a spirit about it that is truly American, an optimism. People there aren…
- I believe in juxtaposition of the arts.
- Philip Johnson on Frank Lloyd Wright - He's the greatest architect of the nineteenth century.
- The Michelangelos of this world are not to be imitated; it is too difficult, and too dangerous.