The chief characteristics of the tall building is that it is lofty. It must be every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation so that from bottom to top it should be a unit without a single… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one's mother tongue should be typical of that art. The sense of reality should be strengthened from the beginning, yet by no means at the cost of… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
Happiness and depression cannot blossom on the same vine. Some people affirm their woes and beg for sympathy. Others, unfortunately, cast gloom wherever they… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
It cannot for a moment be doubted that an art work to be alive, to awaken us to its life, to inspire us sooner… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
It is the mass dream of inverted self, populous with fears overt and secret, that forms the continuous but gossamer thread upon which are… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
The architect who combines in his being the powers of vision, of imagination, of intellect, of sympathy with human need and the power to… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
National Health Insurance means combining the efficiency of the Postal Service with the compassion of the I.R.S. ... and the cost accounting of the… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
The chief characteristics of the tall building is that it is lofty. It must be every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave, of external… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
A proper building grows naturally, logically, and poetically out of all its conditions. — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
The problem of the tall office building is one of the most stupendous, one of the most magnificent opportunities that the Lord of Nature… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
