Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.

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• Philip Johnson:

  Architecture is art, nothing else.

• Philip Johnson:

  Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

• Philip Johnson:

  All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles,

• Philip Johnson:

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

• Philip Johnson:

  I'm about four skyscrapers behind.

• Philip Johnson:

  To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how w

• Philip Johnson:

  Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely t

• Philip Johnson:

  I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.

• Philip Johnson:

  I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make som

• Philip Johnson:

  In my own work, I'd say I'm a classicist, but I look everywhere for my solutions. I don't study the