Quote #5

I am a whore and I am paid very well for high-rise buildings.

More from Philip Johnson

  1. The people with money to build today are corporations -- they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build.
  2. 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…
  3. Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
  4. I believe in juxtaposition of the arts.
  5. Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
  6. Philip Johnson on Frank Lloyd Wright - He's the greatest architect of the nineteenth century.
  7. 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…
  8. The Michelangelos of this world are not to be imitated; it is too difficult, and too dangerous.

All Philip Johnson quotes