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Danh ngôn của Philip Johnson (Sứ mệnh: 3)

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
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.
Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
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.
Architecture is art, nothing else.
The future of architecture is culture.
I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.