List of Louis Kahn Quotes

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Louis Kahn
Total Quotes 41
If people want to see beaux-arts, it's fine with me. i'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.
Art People Want
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
Book Light Offering
The crocodile must want to be a crocodile for reasons of the crocodile
Want Reason Crocodiles
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.
Art Past College
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.
Creative Mind Firsts
In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.
Small Rooms Rooms Doe
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
Wall Events Architecture
Just think, that man can claim a slice of the sun.
Men Thinking Light
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
Design Architecture Reaching
You can never learn anything that is not a part of yourself.
A work of art... is not a living thing... that walks or runs. but the making of a life. that which gives you a reaction. to some it is the wonder of man's fingers. to some it is the wonder of the mind. to some it is the wonder of technique. and to some it is how real it is. to some, how transcendent it is. like the 5th symphony, it presents itself with a feeling that you know it, if you have heard it once.
Running Art Real
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.
Past Done Demand
  • Born: February 20, 1901
  • Died: March 17, 1974
  • Occupation: Architect
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