Louis Kahn Quotes

I've started running three or four times a week, which prompts millions of sketch ideas.

Music is a major cornerstone of our success.

Music inspires contemplation, dreams, and the imagination.

I have to get inspired by something that touches my soul, or rocks my soul.

I feel like that I'm learning all the time. I'm learning from new artists, from established artists... every time I listen to '70s rock 'n' roll records, I'm learning. And I think that I'm just now starting to get a hold on what I do.

It's a privilege to do what I do for a living - to take people out of their miserable day, or to educate somebody, or make somebody laugh, or fall in love with an idea. How good is that? And I get paid to do it!

I try to play the best I can every time I play. But there's just some folks that seem to draw a little bit of that extra special out of you.

Music inspires me.

My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.

I decided I wanted to be a musician when I saw the movie 'Amadeus' around 1987. I was five years old, so it was a good time to start piano lessons after seeing Tom Hulce who played Mozart play the harpsichord on his back with his hands crossed. Such a great movie to inspire a five-year-old.

Every time I sit for a song, I feel I am finished. It's like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill your bowl with the right thought. In every song, I ask help from Him. Everybody around is so good, so to create music that will connect with so many people is not humanly possible without inspiration.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection.

I have ideas saved on my computer that I visit from time to time to see if one may shine and motivate me.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

Art is spiritual.

I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity.

It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

I stopped singing for a long time because it just wasn't something I was very passionate about.

Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.