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.'… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. — Louis Kahn Copy Share
Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is. — Louis Kahn Copy Share
I sense a Threshold: Light to Silence, Silence to Light - an ambiance of inspiration, in which the desire to be, to express, crosses… — Louis Kahn Copy Share
If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else. — Louis Kahn Copy Share
We are born of light. The seasons are felt through light. We only know the world as it is evoked by light. — Louis Kahn Copy Share
Thoughts exchanged by one and another are not the same in one room as in another. — Louis Kahn Copy Share
All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air and we, are made of Light which has been spent, and this… — Louis Kahn Copy Share
