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Philip Johnson Quotes

1906–2005 United States

Philip Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an American architect.

United States
Architects

Also known as: Johnson, Philip

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Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Lack of leadership and direction in the state has let the one group get control who always gain power in a nation's time of weakness—the Jews.

[He's] the greatest architect of the nineteenth century.

I like Houston. It's the last great 19th-century city. Houston has a spirit about it that is truly American, an optimism. People there aren't afraid to try something new.

[T]he anti-Semitism, I was in on, and that's the part I'm really ashamed of.

[T]he German green uniforms made the place look gay and happy. There were not many Jews to be seen. We saw Warsaw burn and Modlin being bombed. It was a stirring spectacle.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Philip Johnson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.