Louis Sullivan Quotes

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• Form ever follows function.
• Form follows function.
• It cannot for a moment be doubted that an art work to be alive, to awaken us to its life, to inspire us sooner or…
• 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 Pentagon.
• But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
• It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.
• 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…
• How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day it…
• What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not…
• 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…
• Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror.
• Happiness and depression cannot blossom on the same vine. Some people affirm their woes and beg for sympathy. Others, unfortunately, cast gloom wherever they go.…
• Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.
• Alas, the world has never known a sound social fabric, a fabric sound and clean to the core and kindly. For it has ever turned…
• Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.
• Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.
• If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in…
• Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as…
• In the history of mankind there are recorded two great Inversions. The first, set forth by the Nazarene to the effect that love is a…
• It is the mass dream of inverted self, populous with fears overt and secret, that forms the continuous but gossamer thread upon which are strung…

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