Top 41 Louis Kahn Quotes
#1. Art is a product of the intuitive - the most powerful instrument within us. The intuitive is the most accurate sense we have.
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#2. The nature of space reflects what it wants to be.
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#3. Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.
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#4. The room is the beginning of architecture.
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#5. When a scientist views things, he's not considering the incredible at all.
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#7. A book is tremendously important. Nobody ever paid for the price of a book, they only paid for the printing
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#8. Just think, that man can claim a slice of the sun.
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#9. I just want to make my last demand in reverence to the work of what has been done by architects of the past. what was, has always been. what is, has always been. and what will be, has always been. such is the nature of beginning.
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#10. Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is.
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#11. The artist is only a vehicle for already has been. Nothing can really be given a presence unless it already exists potentially.
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#12. You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.' And you say to brick, 'Look, I want one, too, but arches are expensive and I can use a concrete lintel.' And then you say: 'What do you think of that, brick?' Brick says: 'I like an arch.'
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#13. A city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where a small boy, as he walks through it, may see something that will tell him what he wants to do his whole life.
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#15. You can never learn anything that is not a part of yourself.
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#16. How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance.
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#17. I sense a Threshold: Light to Silence, Silence to Light - an ambiance of inspiration, in which the desire to be, to express, crosses with the possible Light to Silence, Silence to Light crosses in the sanctuary of art.
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#18. Architects in planning rooms today have forgotten their faith in natural light. Depending on the touch of a finger to a switch, they are satisfied with static light and forget the endlessly changing qualities of natural light, in which a room is a different room every second of the day.
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#19. Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
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#20. The crocodile must want to be a crocodile for reasons of the crocodile
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#21. Architecture is what nature cannot make.
Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.
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#22. Thoughts exchanged by one and another are not the same in one room as in another.
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#23. Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
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#24. The person of old had the same brilliance of mind that we assume we have now. But that which made a thing become manifest for the first time is our great moment of creative happening.
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#25. A room is not a room without natural light.
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#26. The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made.
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#27. In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.
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#28. How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering.
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#29. Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.
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#30. I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and material as spent Light. What is made by Light casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.
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#31. Every building must have ... its own soul.
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#32. I try to create homes, not houses.
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#33. Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
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#34. A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasured.
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#35. If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.
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#36. We are born of light. The seasons are felt through light. We only know the world as it is evoked by light.
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#37. I Use The Square To Begin My Solutions Because The Square Is A Non-choice, Really. In The Course Of Development, I Search For The Forces That Would Disprove The Square ...
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#38. The street is a room by agreement.
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#39. The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.
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#40. Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall.
The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.
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#41. The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.
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