Quote by Louis Kahn
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affini

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

Other quotes by Louis Kahn

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. – Louis Kahn

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architecture
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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

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architecture
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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about lifes sores the better. – Oscar Wilde

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Beauty

I really like to be able to have variety and to try different things – thats the beauty of fashion. – Leighton Meester

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Beauty

People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. Its a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role. – Mstislav Rostropovich

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Nature is commanded by obeying her. – Francis Bacon

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I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose them, and from the same good spirit we must find another strength. – Black Elk

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Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone. – Horatio Nelson

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