Top 30 Louis Kahn Quotes (2024 Update)

Louis Kahn Quote: “Even a brick wants to be something.”

1. “Even a brick wants to be something.”

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

2. “We are born of light. The seasons are felt through light. We only know the world as it is evoked by light.”

Louis Kahn Quote: “Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.”

3. “Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.”

Louis Kahn Quote: “A room is not a room without natural light.”

4. “A room is not a room without natural light.”

Louis Kahn Quote: “You can never learn anything that is not a part of yourself.”

5. “You can never learn anything that is not a part of yourself.”

Louis Kahn Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

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

7. “Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is.”

Louis Kahn Quote: “The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.”

8. “The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.”

Louis Kahn Quote: “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.’”

9. “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.’”

Louis Kahn Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

Louis Kahn Quote: “The nature of space reflects what it wants to be.”

11. “The nature of space reflects what it wants to be.”

Louis Kahn Quote: “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.”

12. “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 Quote: “The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.”

13. “The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.”

Louis Kahn Quote: “Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.”

14. “Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.”

Louis Kahn Quote: “The room is the beginning of architecture.”

15. “The room is the beginning of architecture.”

Louis Kahn Quote: “I try to create homes, not houses.”

16. “I try to create homes, not houses.”

Louis Kahn Quote: “Thoughts exchanged by one and another are not the same in one room as in another.”

17. “Thoughts exchanged by one and another are not the same in one room as in another.”

Louis Kahn Quote: “Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.”

18. “Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.”

Louis Kahn Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

Louis Kahn Quote: “All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air and we, are made of Light which has been spent, and this crumpled mass called material casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.”

20. “All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air and we, are made of Light which has been spent, and this crumpled mass called material casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.”

Louis Kahn Quote: “A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.”

21. “A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.”

Louis Kahn Quote: “The crocodile must want to be a crocodile for reasons of the crocodile.”

22. “The crocodile must want to be a crocodile for reasons of the crocodile.”

Louis Kahn Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

Louis Kahn Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

Louis Kahn Quote: “The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made.”

25. “The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made.”

Louis Kahn Quote: “In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.”

26. “In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.”

Louis Kahn Quote: “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.”

27. “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.”

Louis Kahn Quote: “How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance.”

28. “How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance.”

Louis Kahn Quote: “Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.”

29. “Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.”

Louis Kahn Quote: “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.”

30. “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.”

Louis Kahn Quote: “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...”

31. “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...”

Louis Kahn Quote: “Just think, that man can claim a slice of the sun.”

32. “Just think, that man can claim a slice of the sun.”

Louis Kahn Quote: “If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it’s fine with me. I’m interested in good architecture as anybody else.”

33. “If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it’s fine with me. I’m interested in good architecture as anybody else.”

Louis Kahn Quote: “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.”

34. “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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