When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in what civilization is this building? And the absurdity, vulgarity, anachronism and solecism of the modern structure will be… — 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
