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

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• 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

• Philip Johnson:

  Processionalism is primary - how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects o

• Philip Johnson:

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

• Philip Johnson:

  The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobg

• Philip Johnson:

  Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your bo

• Philip Johnson:

  Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a bui

• Philip Johnson:

  It is wonderful to be in the country in a glass house, because no matter what happens out there, yo

• Philip Johnson:

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

• Philip Johnson:

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