88 Quotes by Philip Johnson

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?

In our universal experience unintelligent material processes do not create life.

I wouldn’t build a building if it wasn’t of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

Early unsuccessess shouldn’t bother anybody because it happens to absolutely everybody.

I'm about four skyscrapers behind.

Dullness is the enemy.

You cannot not know history.