All Louis Sullivan Quotes
- Form ever follows function. Ass
- Form follows function. Architecture
- 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… Alive
- 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. Accounting
- But the building's identity resided in the ornament. Architecture
- It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building. Animating
- 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… All
- 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… Crowds
- 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… Action
- 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… Architect
- Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror. Architecture
- 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.… Affirm
- Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable. Building
- 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… Alas
- Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition. Anchorage
- Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time. All
- 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… Brought
- 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… Beneficent
- 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… Affirmation
- 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… All
- 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 and… Assumption
- What the people are within, the buildings express without. Buildings
- The problem of the tall office building is one of the most stupendous, one of the most magnificent opportunities that the Lord of Nature in… Beneficence
- Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a… Architecture