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Louis Sullivan Quotes

1856 – 1924

American architect, known as the "father of skyscrapers".

20 quotesAbout Louis Sullivan on Wikipedia

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

— Louis Sullivan

“Yet evidently the true object of education, now as ever, is to develop the capabilities of the head and of the heart.”

— Louis Sullivan

“We must now heed the imperative voice of emotion.”

— Louis Sullivan

“It must be tall, every inch of it tall.”

— Louis Sullivan

“Truly we are face to face with great things.”

— Louis Sullivan

“High ideals make a people strong.”

— Louis Sullivan

“A democracy should not let its dreamers perish.”

— Louis Sullivan

“The greatest man of action is he who is the greatest, and a life-long, dreamer.”

— Louis Sullivan

“He who dreams not creates not.”

— Louis Sullivan

“Verily, there needs a gardener, and many gardens.”

— Louis Sullivan

“Such is the garden of the heart: so oft neglected and despised when fallow.”

— Louis Sullivan

“Let us then be on our way; for our sun is climbing ever higher.”

— Louis Sullivan

“Taste is one of the weaker words in our language.”

— Louis Sullivan

“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

“The true architectural art, that art toward which I would lead you, rests, not upon scholarship but upon human powers; and, therefore, it is to be tested, not by the fruits of…”

— Louis Sullivan

“The French have a saying: "Time will not consecrate that in which she has been ignored." Bear this admonition ever in mind for it is deeply true.”

— Louis Sullivan

“The tyranny alike of church and state has been curbed, and true power is now known to reside where forever it must remain — in the people.”

— Louis Sullivan

“I am of those who believe that gentleness is a greater, surer power than force, and that sympathy is a safer power by far than is intellect.”

— Louis Sullivan

“Unceasingly the essence of things is taking shape in the matter of things, and this unspeakable process we call birth and growth.”

— Louis Sullivan

“Where function does not change form does not change.”

— Louis Sullivan

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