Philip Johnson

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

I'm not interested in what people think. I'm interested in what I think.

The client is always right, until he's wrong.

Architecture is the most public of the arts.

I'm not a teacher. I'm a provocateur.

Form follows function—that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, a spiritual union.

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

Architecture is a political act.

I'm not interested in being original. I'm interested in being good.

The history of architecture is the history of taste.

Architecture is the art of making the impossible possible.

I'm not a philosopher. I'm an architect.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Architecture is the most beautiful of all the arts.

I'm not interested in being popular. I'm interested in being right.

Architecture is the art of building well.

I'm not a genius. I'm a hard worker.

Architecture is the art of making the invisible visible.

I'm not interested in being remembered. I'm interested in being forgotten.

Architecture is the art of creating environments.