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Philip Johnson
American
Architect
About the author
I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?
Philip Johnson,
American
Architect
#Hate
#Beach
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Philip Johnson,
American
Architect
#Architecture
#Art
#Space
#Waste
Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business.
Philip Johnson,
American
Architect
#Want
#Pretty
#Business
#Clients
#Projects
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
Philip Johnson,
American
Architect
#Architecture
#Space
#Design
All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
Philip Johnson,
American
Architect
#Want
I'm about four skyscrapers behind.
Philip Johnson,
American
Architect