Louis Sullivan Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Louis Sullivan:

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

What the people are within, the buildings express without.

Louis Sullivan

Form follows function.

Louis Sullivan

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

Louis Sullivan

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

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

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

The building's identity resided in the ornament.

Louis Sullivan

Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.

Louis Sullivan

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

Louis Sullivan

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