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

- Louis Kahn

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 …

- Louis Kahn

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

- Louis Kahn

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

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 w…

- Louis Kahn

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space

- Louis Kahn

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

- 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

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

- Louis Kahn