Louis Sullivan

education suppression

“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)

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"Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable."

— Louis Sullivan (1856-1924)

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

— Louis Sullivan (1856-1924)

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

— Louis Sullivan (1856-1924)

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"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)

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"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)