"What the people are within, the buildings express…" — Louis Sullivan
"What the people are within, the buildings express without."
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24 Quotes by Louis Sullivan
Louis Sullivan has 24 quotes on this site.
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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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On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we…
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I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get…
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They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and…
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Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of…
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Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts…
— George W. Bush
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I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down…
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It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where…
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Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other.
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There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has…
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