Quotes from Louis Kahn

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.

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

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.

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

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

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.

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.

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