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title: "1 Think Brick Quotes By Louis Kahn"
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> [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.'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-kahn/you-say-to-a-brick-what-do-you-want-brick-and-brick-says-to-you-i/)

[Louis Kahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-kahn/)

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## More by Louis Kahn

> [Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-kahn/design-is-not-making-beauty-beauty-emerges-from-selection-affinities/)

[Louis Kahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-kahn/)

> [Even a brick wants to be something](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-kahn/even-a-brick-wants-to-be-something/)

[Louis Kahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-kahn/)

> [Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-kahn/even-a-room-which-must-be-dark-needs-at-least-a-crack-of-light-to/)

[Louis Kahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-kahn/)

> [A room is not a room without natural light.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-kahn/a-room-is-not-a-room-without-natural-light/)

[Louis Kahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-kahn/)

> [Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-kahn/architecture-struck-me-between-the-eye-and-the-eyeball/)

[Louis Kahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-kahn/)

> [I sense a Threshold: Light to Silence, Silence to Light - an ambiance of inspiration, in which the desire to be, to express, crosses…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-kahn/i-sense-a-threshold-light-to-silence-silence-to-light-an-ambiance-of/)

[Louis Kahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-kahn/)

> [If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-kahn/if-people-want-to-see-beaux-arts-it-s-fine-with-me-i-m-interested-in/)

[Louis Kahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-kahn/)

> [The street is a room by agreement.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-kahn/the-street-is-a-room-by-agreement/)

[Louis Kahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-kahn/)

> [What does a house want to be?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-kahn/what-does-a-house-want-to-be/)

[Louis Kahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-kahn/)

> [We are born of light. The seasons are felt through light. We only know the world as it is evoked by light.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-kahn/we-are-born-of-light-the-seasons-are-felt-through-light-we-only-know/)

[Louis Kahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-kahn/)

> [The room is the beginning of architecture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-kahn/the-room-is-the-beginning-of-architecture/)

[Louis Kahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-kahn/)

> [The nature of space reflects what it wants to be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-kahn/the-nature-of-space-reflects-what-it-wants-to-be/)

[Louis Kahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-kahn/)

> [Thoughts exchanged by one and another are not the same in one room as in another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-kahn/thoughts-exchanged-by-one-and-another-are-not-the-same-in-one-room-as/)

[Louis Kahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-kahn/)

> [The crocodile must want to be a crocodile for reasons of the crocodile](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-kahn/the-crocodile-must-want-to-be-a-crocodile-for-reasons-of-the-crocodile/)

[Louis Kahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-kahn/)

> [All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air and we, are made of Light which has been spent, and this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-kahn/all-material-in-nature-the-mountains-and-the-streams-and-the-air-and/)

[Louis Kahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-kahn/)

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