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

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


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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.

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.



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.

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.



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

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



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

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



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.

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.



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

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



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

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



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.

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.



Even a brick wants to be something

Even a brick wants to be something



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.

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.





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I am positive - determined to move forward with my life, bring up my babies, and do the best job I can as a mother, entertainer, and person.

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For whose sake did you live, for whose sake did you die? Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do.

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I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.

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No woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?

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When the situations seem impossible, the best thing you can do is to think the opposite!

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The secret is to believe in your dreams; in your potential that you can be like your star, keep searching, keep believing and don’t lose faith in yourself.

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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.

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