Louis Sullivan

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

What the people are within, the buildings express without.

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 social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.

Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

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 things in upon it that darken and weary it.

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.

It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.