Philip Johnson Quotes

I Think The Collectors Have Made An Enormous Contribution, Not Only To The Market But To Painters Themselves... These People That Buy, That Set Standards, Make Everyone Else Itch To Emulate.

I Wish Someone Would Ask Me To Design A Cathedral.

Some Of The Opera Houses In Italy Had To Be Burnt Down Because People Could Neither See Nor Hear. They Gave Up Seeing Years Ago, But They Did Enjoy The Music.

[evolution] Doesn't Mean God-guided, Gradual Creation. It Means Unguided, Purposeless Change. The Darwinian Theory Doesn't Say That God Created Slowly. It Says That Naturalistic Evolution Is The Creator, And So God Had Nothing To Do With It.

In Our Universal Experience Unintelligent Material Processes Do Not Create Life

In Our Greatest Universities, Naturalism - The Doctrine That Nature Is All There Is - Is The Virtually Unquestioned Assumption That Underlies Not Only Natural Science But Intellectual Work Of All Kinds.

The Best Thing To Do With Water Is To Use A Lot Of It.

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.

I Haven't Any Wisdom - Just A Child Like Everybody Else. I'm Not As Great As Frank Lloyd Wright.

American Megalomania Is Largely Responsible For The Growth Of The Skyscraper School.

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.

I Hate The Celebrity Architect Thing. I Just Do My Work. The Press Comes Up With This Stuff And It Sticks. I Hate The Word Starchitect. Stuff Like That Comes From Mean-spirited, Untalented Journalists. It's Demeaning.