I get between nine and ten hours of sleep. Go to bed at 8:30 and get up at 6:00 or 6:30 if I oversleep. Philip Johnson Read Quote
There’s no such thing as old age. I’m no different now than I was 50 years ago. I’m just having more fun. Philip Johnson Read Quote
I guess I can’t be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring. Philip Johnson Read Quote
Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston. Philip Johnson Read Quote
It is wonderful to be in the country in a glass house, because no matter what happens out there, you’re nice and safe, you know, cuddled in your little bed, and there it is, raging storms, snowing – wonderful. Philip Johnson Read Quote
Processionalism is primary – how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects of spaces as you move about in them. That’s worked out awfully well in the State Theater. I’m a ‘straight-in’ man myself; I’m too nervous, I like to know where I am. I also like to know where I’m going. Philip Johnson Read Quote
In my own work, I’d say I’m a classicist, but I look everywhere for my solutions. I don’t study the toilet-living habits of my clients, although that’s a popular approach. First, I think of every building in history that has been similar in purpose. Then I think of the functional program – that’s a major part of the study. Philip Johnson Read Quote
I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point. Philip Johnson Read Quote
Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in. Philip Johnson Read Quote