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When a scientist views things, he's not considering the incredible at all. — Louis I. Kahn

The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building. — Louis I. Kahn

If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else. — Louis Kahn

A book is tremendously important. Nobody ever paid for the price of a book, they only paid for the printing — Louis I. Kahn

What does a house want to be? — Louis Kahn

The street is a room by agreement. — Louis Kahn

The room is the beginning of architecture. — Louis Kahn

We are born of light. The seasons are felt through light. We only know the world as it is evoked by light. — Louis Kahn

The artist is only a vehicle for already has been. Nothing can really be given a presence unless it already exists potentially. — Louis I. Kahn

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball. — Louis Kahn

I try to create homes, not houses. — Louis Kahn

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. — Louis Kahn

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. — Louis Kahn

Thoughts exchanged by one and another are not the same in one room as in another. — Louis Kahn

You can never learn anything that is not a part of yourself. — Louis Kahn

Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is. — Louis Kahn

Even a brick wants to be something — Louis Kahn

The crocodile must want to be a crocodile for reasons of the crocodile — Louis Kahn

Art is a product of the intuitive - the most powerful instrument within us. The intuitive is the most accurate sense we have. — Louis I. Kahn

How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance. — Louis Kahn

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. — Louis Kahn

A room is not a room without natural light. — Louis Kahn

The nature of space reflects what it wants to be. — Louis Kahn

Architecture is what nature cannot make.
Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up. — Louis Kahn

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. — Louis Kahn

Just think, that man can claim a slice of the sun. — Louis Kahn

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. — Louis I. Kahn

The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made. — Louis Kahn

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. — Louis Kahn

Every building must have ... its own soul. — Louis Kahn

In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room. — Louis Kahn