"An architect, to be a true exponent of……" — Louis Sullivan
"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."
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24 Quotes by Louis Sullivan
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Form ever follows function.
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Form follows function.
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It cannot for a moment be doubted that an art work to be alive, to awaken us to its life,…
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National Health Insurance means combining the efficiency of the Postal Service with the compassion of the I.R.S. ... and the…
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But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
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It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.
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How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to…
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What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a…
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The architect who combines in his being the powers of vision, of imagination, of intellect, of sympathy with human need…
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Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror.
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Happiness and depression cannot blossom on the same vine. Some people affirm their woes and beg for sympathy. Others, unfortunately,…
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Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.
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