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" 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. "

Philip Johnson

Building

Care

Important

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" I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring. "

" I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects. "

" 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. "

" There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes. "

" I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner. "

" Dullness is the enemy. "

Philip Johnson

Dullness

Enemy

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral. "

Philip Johnson

I Wish

Someone

" Architecture is the art of how to waste space. "

" I'm about four skyscrapers behind. "

" 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

Why

" Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were. "

" All architects want to live beyond their deaths. "

" 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? "

" I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral. "

" 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. "

" The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build. "

" I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original. "

" Architecture is art, nothing else. "

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

" I used to think that each phase of life was the end. But now that my view on life is more or less fixed, I believe that change is a great thing. In fact, it's the only real absolute in the world. "

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

" 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. "