Louis Sullivan Quotes

Louis Sullivan Famous Quotes & Sayings

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What the people are within, the buildings express without.

Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.

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

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

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.

Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror.

It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.

Form ever follows function.

Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.

The building's identity resided in the ornament.