Philip Johnson
Philip Johnson
Philip Cortelyou Johnsonwas an influential American architect. He is especially known for his postmodern work from the 1980s and beyond, as well as his collaborations with John Burgee...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth8 July 1906
CityCleveland, OH
CountryUnited States of America
Philip Johnson quotes about
art badass bad-ass
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
art space design
Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
art architecture
Architecture is art, nothing else.
moving doors tears
Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?
art architecture building
When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.
believe rivers steps
Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.
giving trying world
You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.
moving men space
Processionalism is primary - how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects of spaces as you move about in them. That's worked out awfully well in the State Theater. I'm a 'straight-in' man myself; I'm too nervous, I like to know where I am. I also like to know where I'm going.
art wish doe
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.