"All architects want to live beyond their deaths." ― Philip Johnson Topic(s): Death More From Philip Johnson "Architecture is the art of how to waste space." "I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?" "All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space." More In Death "Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?"― W. C. Fields "What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death."― Dave Barry "Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death."― Charles de Montesquieu