Philip Johnson Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

  Philip Johnson

  Funny, Art, Badass

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

• 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

• How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning was the greatest of my contemporaries in art, and he knew when he'd done a good line. When he didn't, he threw it away. I wish I'd thrown away some of mine.

  Philip Johnson

  Art, Wish, Doe

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

  Philip Johnson

  Art, Architecture, Building

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

  Philip Johnson

  Art, Building, Should

  "Philip Johnson: What I've Learned". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. February 1999.

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