Quotes by Louis Sullivan - Page 1

Form follows function.
Louis Sullivan / Architect
Architecture
Form
Function
Follows
Copy Quote
Form ever follows function.
Louis Sullivan / Architect
Design
Bad Ass
Badass
Copy Quote
Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror.
Louis Sullivan / Architect
Architecture
Mirrors
Copy Quote
The building's identity resided in the ornament.
Louis Sullivan / Architect
Architecture
Building
Identity
Ornament
Copy Quote
Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.
Louis Sullivan / Architect
Men
Recognition
Self
Shall
Copy Quote
But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
Louis Sullivan / Architect
Architecture
Identity
Ornaments
Copy Quote
To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action.
Louis Sullivan / Architect
Teacher
Action
Heart
Copy Quote
Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.
Louis Sullivan / Architect
People
Single
Unique
Copy Quote
What the people are within, the buildings express without.
Louis Sullivan / Architect
Within
Buildings
Express
Copy Quote
A proper building grows naturally, logically, and poetically out of all its conditions.
Louis Sullivan / Architect
Building
Conditions
Grows
Copy Quote
It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.
Louis Sullivan / Architect
Design
Individuality
Mass
Spirit
Animating
Expressed
Flowing
Copy Quote
Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.
Louis Sullivan / Architect
Mankind
Possession
Saturated
Sorrow
Treacherous
Sorrows
Copy Quote
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.
Louis Sullivan / Architect
Men
Alas
Clean
Core
Fabric
Sound
Man World Never
Social Fabric
Turned
Copy Quote
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 not to action?
Louis Sullivan / Architect
Art
Book
Hypocrisy
Copy Quote
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 eye becomes clairvoyant.
Louis Sullivan / Architect
Art
Architecture
Critical
Done
Eye
Looks
Manifestation
Social
Badly
Becomes
Less
Learn
Merely
More Or Less
Copy Quote
Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome.
Louis Sullivan / Architect
Free Will
Glorious
Implicit
Lying
Manifest
Proud
Responsibility
Social Responsibility
True Freedom
Welcome
Beneficent
Choose
Lies
Virile
Copy Quote
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 / Architect
Light
Mean
Practice
Copy Quote
The problem of the tall office building is one of the most stupendous, one of the most magnificent opportunities that the Lord of Nature in His beneficence has ever offered to the proud spirit of man.
Louis Sullivan / Architect
Lord
Magnificent
Problem
Proud
Offered
Opportunities
Copy Quote
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.
Louis Sullivan / Architect
Depression
People
Sick
Tired
Copy Quote
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.
Louis Sullivan / Architect
Intuition
Principles
Real
Copy Quote
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 / Architect
Lines
Proud
Rising
Copy Quote
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 / Architect
Imagination
Needs
Vision
Copy Quote
It is the mass dream of inverted self, populous with fears overt and secret, that forms the continuous but gossamer thread upon which are strung as phantom beads all civilizations from the remotest past of record to that of the present day and hour.
Louis Sullivan / Architect
Dream
Beads
Inverted
Mass
Past
Secret
Self
Thread
Forms
Civilizations
Continuous
Fears
Hour
Phantom
Strung
Copy Quote
It cannot for a moment be doubted that an art work to be alive, to awaken us to its life, to inspire us sooner or later with its purpose, must indeed be animate with a soul, must have been breathed upon by the spirit and must breathe in turn that spirit.
Louis Sullivan / Architect
Art
Healing
Inspire
Copy Quote
The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave, of external and internal suppression of the life urge of the only one - of its faith in human sacrifice as a means of salvation.
Louis Sullivan / Architect
Men
Assumption
Core
Mean
Sacrifice
Salvation
Self Preservation
Slave
Suppression
Life Faith Man
External
Concept
Master
Feudal
Internal
Poisoned
Urge
Copy Quote
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.
Louis Sullivan / Architect
Art
Mean
Mother
Copy Quote
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.
Louis Sullivan / Architect
Men
Consciousness
Covering
Existence
Late
Long
Mind
Open Mind
Quantity
Realism
Wide
Unknown
Brought
Man Mind Long
Field
Likely
Reads
Reflects
Soon
Sudden
Copy Quote
When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in what civilization is this building? And the absurdity, vulgarity, anachronism and solecism of the modern structure will be revealed to you in a most startling fashion.
Louis Sullivan / Architect
Civilization
Fashion
Historical
Copy Quote
In the history of mankind there are recorded two great Inversions. The first, set forth by the Nazarene to the effect that love is a greater power and more real than vengeance. The second proclaimed the earth to be a sphere revolving in its course around the sun. These affirmations were made in the face of all evidence sacred to the contrary.
Louis Sullivan / Architect
Contrary
Evidence
Greater
Love Is
Mankind
Real
Revolving
Sacred
Sun
Two
Vengeance
Effect
Forth
Proclaimed
Sphere
Copy Quote

Related Architect Authors

Zaha Hadid
Architect
Tuesday, Oct 31, 1950
Thursday, Mar 31, 2016
Yoshio Taniguchi
Architect
Witold Rybczynski
Architect
Monday, Mar 01, 1943
Willis Polk
Architect
Thursday, Oct 03, 1867
Wednesday, Sep 10, 1924
William Wardell
Architect
Wednesday, Mar 03, 1824
Sunday, Nov 19, 1899
William Lethaby
Architect
Sunday, Jan 18, 1857
Friday, Jul 17, 1931
William J. Mitchell
Architect
Friday, Dec 15, 1944
Friday, Jun 11, 2010
Will Alsop
Architect
Friday, Dec 12, 1947
Walter Gropius
Architect
Friday, May 18, 1883
Saturday, Jul 05, 1969
Vittorio Gregotti
Architect
Toyo Ito
Architect
Sunday, Jun 01, 1941
Tom Turner
Architect
Sunday, May 05, 1946
Tom Kundig
Architect
Saturday, Oct 09, 1954
Thomas S. Tait
Architect
Sunday, Jun 18, 1882
Sunday, Jul 18, 1954
Thom Mayne
Architect
Wednesday, Jan 19, 1944

View All Architect Quotes

Top Authors

Donald Trump
45Th President Of The United States
Friday, Jun 14, 1946
Billy Graham
Professional Wrestler
Monday, Jun 07, 1943
Aristotle
Philosopher
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Steve Jobs
Entrepreneur
Thursday, Feb 24, 1955
Wednesday, Oct 05, 2011
Thomas Aquinas
Priest
Tuesday, Jan 28, 1225
Wednesday, Mar 07, 1274
Dwight D. Eisenhower
34Th U.s. President
Tuesday, Oct 14, 1890
Friday, Mar 28, 1969
Benjamin Franklin
Founding Father Of The United States
Sunday, Jan 17, 1706
Saturday, Apr 17, 1790
Kim Kardashian
Television Personality
Tuesday, Oct 21, 1980
Thomas Jefferson
3Rd US President
Saturday, Apr 13, 1743
Tuesday, Jul 04, 1826
Muhammad Ali
Professional Boxer
Saturday, Jan 17, 1942
Friday, Jun 03, 2016
Napoleon Hill
Author
Friday, Oct 26, 1883
Sunday, Nov 08, 1970
Oprah Winfrey
Media Proprietor
Friday, Jan 29, 1954
Julius Caesar
Roman Dictator
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Ernest Hemingway
Author
Friday, Jul 21, 1899
Sunday, Jul 02, 1961
Vince Lombardi
Football Player
Wednesday, Jun 11, 1913
Thursday, Sep 03, 1970

View All Authors

Louis Sullivan Quotes - Page 1

App & Tools

Related Architect Authors

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page

Stay Connected

App & Tools

Related Architect Authors

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page