Philip Johnson Quotes About Architecture

Quotes about: Architecture

• Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

  Philip Johnson

  Funny, Art, Badass

  New York Times 27 Dec. 1964, p. 9E

• I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

  Philip Johnson

  Funny, Beach, Hate

• All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

  Philip Johnson

  Badass, Bad Ass, Space

• All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

  Philip Johnson

  Death, Want, Architecture

• The future of architecture is culture.

  Philip Johnson

  Culture, Architecture

• The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man. One must eat, one must have shelter. Next to religious worship itself, it is the spiritual handmaiden of our deepest convictions.

  Philip Johnson

  Spiritual, Religious, Inspiration

  Philip Johnson (1979). “The Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1979: Presented to Philip Johnson”

• Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.

  Philip Johnson

  Wall, Talking, Rooms

• Architecture is art, nothing else.

  Philip Johnson

  Art, Architecture

• Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

  Philip Johnson

  Art, Space, Design

• The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.

  Philip Johnson

  Cities, Architecture, Automobile

• To sum up the state of architecture in America: ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

  Philip Johnson

  Architecture, Building

  Source: business.highbeam.com

• Ninety-eight percent are boxes, which tells me that a lot of people are in denial. We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that. Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable. People say, "This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me." Then when somebody does something different, real architecture, the push-back is amazing. People resist it. At first it's new and scary.

  Philip Johnson

  Real, People, Scary

  Source: business.highbeam.com

• When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.

  Philip Johnson

  Art, Architecture, Building

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