Quotes by Louis Sullivan

Louis Sullivan

A proper building grows naturally, logically, and poetically out of all its conditions.

Building

Conditions

Grows

Alas, the world has never known a sound social fabric, a fabric sound and clean to the core and kindly. For it has ever turned its back on Man.

Fabric

Men

Sound

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, vital principle that survives through all places and all times.

Intuition

Principles

Real

An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one’s mother tongue should be typical of that art. The sense of reality should be strengthened from the beginning, yet by no means at the cost of those lofty illusions we call patriotism, veneration, love.

Art

Mean

Mother

But the building’s identity resided in the ornament.

Architecture

Identity

Ornaments

Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

People

Single

Unique

Form ever follows function.

Bad Ass

Badass

Design

Happiness and depression cannot blossom on the same vine. Some people affirm their woes and beg for sympathy. Others, unfortunately, cast gloom wherever they go. These poor souls were born sick and tired.

Depression

People

Tired

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.

Light

Mean

Practice

If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in terms of realism, he is likely, soon or late, to be brought to a sudden consciousness that Man is an unknown quantity and his existence unsuspected.

Long

Men

Mind

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Bad Ass

Badass

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Depression

Design

Dream

Eye

Fabric

Fashion

Grows

Healing

Heart

Historical

Hypocrisy

Identity

Imagination

Individuality

Inspire

Intuition

Light

Lines

Long

Looks

Love Is

Lying

Mankind

Mean

Men

Mind

Mirrors

Mother

Needs

Ornaments

Past

People

Possession

Practice

Principles

Proud

Real

Recognition

Responsibility

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Quotes by Louis Sullivan

Louis Sullivan

A proper building grows naturally, logically, and poetically out of all its conditions.

Alas, the world has never known a sound social fabric, a fabric sound and clean to the core and kindly. For it has ever turned its back on Man.

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, vital principle that survives through all places and all times.

An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one’s mother tongue should be typical of that art. The sense of reality should be strengthened from the beginning, yet by no means at the cost of those lofty illusions we call patriotism, veneration, love.

But the building’s identity resided in the ornament.

Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

Form ever follows function.

Happiness and depression cannot blossom on the same vine. Some people affirm their woes and beg for sympathy. Others, unfortunately, cast gloom wherever they go. These poor souls were born sick and tired.

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.

If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in terms of realism, he is likely, soon or late, to be brought to a sudden consciousness that Man is an unknown quantity and his existence unsuspected.

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