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Quote by Louis Kahn
Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece

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

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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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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. – Martin Mull

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Every mans work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. – Samuel Butler

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Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator. – Antonio Gaudi

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To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. Its a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works. – Ai Weiwei

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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Theres no such thing as an actor giving positive criticism to a director. The minute you say Dont you think it would look nicer…, that directors going to hate your guts. Particularly if its a good idea. – Peter Mullan

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. – John Anthony Ciardi

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence. – Jean Paul

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