Philip Johnson Quotes

To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.

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.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.

I get between nine and ten hours of sleep. Go to bed at 8:30 and get up at 6:00 or 6:30 if I oversleep.

It is wonderful to be in the country in a glass house, because no matter what happens out there, you're nice and safe, you know, cuddled in your little bed, and there it is, raging storms, snowing - wonderful.

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.

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