“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.”
― Louis Sullivan (1856-1924)
"Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable."
— Louis Sullivan (1856-1924)
"To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action."
— Louis Sullivan (1856-1924)
"A proper building grows naturally, logically, and poetically out of all its conditions."
— Louis Sullivan (1856-1924)
"The chief characteristics of the tall building is that it is lofty. It must be every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation so that from bottom to top it should be a unit without a single dissenting line."
— Louis Sullivan (1856-1924)
"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."
— Louis Sullivan (1856-1924)