You’re going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You’ll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead. Philip Johnson Read Quote
I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people. Philip Johnson Read Quote
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. Philip Johnson Read Quote
The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds. Philip Johnson Read Quote
I wouldn’t build a building if it wasn’t of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I? Philip Johnson Read Quote
Faith? Haven’t any. I’m not a nihilist or a relativist. I don’t believe in anything but change. I’m a Heraclitean – you can’t step in the same river twice. Philip Johnson Read Quote
