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
Some Similar Quotes
  1. If only [people] understood that every thought is both false and true! False by one-sidenedness resulting from man's inability to embrace the whole truth, and true as an expression of one fact of human endeavor. - Leo Tolstoy
  2. Ihr redet, wenn ihr aufhört mit euren Gedanken in Frieden zu sein. - Kahlil Gibran
  3. A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor. - Victor Hugo
  4. This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. - Samuel Johnson
  5. My words are within the rim But No rim can bind my Thought. - Kartik Mehta
More Quotes By Philip Johnson
  1. Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
  2. All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
  3. Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
  4. All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
  5. 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.
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