The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but

Image, The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but

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.

—Louis Kahn

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