The architect who combines in his being the powers of vision, of imagination, of intellect, of sympathy with human need and the power to interpret them in a language vernacular and time--- is he who shall create poems in stone. — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
An architect, to be a true exponent of his time, must possess first, last and always the sympathy, the intuition of a poet... this is the one real, vital principle that survives through all places and all times. — 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
