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

Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.

- Louis Sullivan

To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action.

- 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…

- Louis Sullivan

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

- Louis Sullivan

Form ever follows function.

- Louis Sullivan

Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

- 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…

- Louis Sullivan