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.
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, v… - 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, v…
- Louis Sullivan
Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time. - Louis Sullivan
Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.
To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action. - Louis Sullivan
To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action.
What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it no… - Louis Sullivan
What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it no…
Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition. - Louis Sullivan
Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.
Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable. - Louis Sullivan
Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.
But the building's identity resided in the ornament. - Louis Sullivan
But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
Form ever follows function. - Louis Sullivan
Form ever follows function.
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… - Louis Sullivan
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…
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