"It is the mass dream of inverted self,……" — Louis Sullivan
"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 as phantom beads all civilizations from the remotest past of record to that of the present day and hour."
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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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An architect, to be a true exponent of his time, must possess first, last and always the sympathy, the intuition…
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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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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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