Architect Quote by Louis Sullivan

“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.” quote by Louis Sullivan — Download Open 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 interpret them in a language vernacular and time--- is he who shall create poems in stone.”

Louis Sullivan

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Happiness and depression cannot blossom on the same vine. Some people affirm their woes and beg for sympathy. Others, unfortunately, cast gloom wherever they…

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It cannot for a moment be doubted that an art work to be alive, to awaken us to its life, to inspire us sooner…

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How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day…

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Form follows function.

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The chief characteristics of the tall building is that it is lofty. It must be every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in…

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If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects…

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To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action.

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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…

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