Louis Kahn Quotations

The crocodile must want to be a crocodile for reasons of the crocodile

I try to create homes, not houses.

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

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

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

The room is the beginning of architecture.

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

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.

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

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.