88 Quotes by Philip Johnson

Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.

Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.

I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.