Quotes by Louis Sullivan

“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 m...”

“High ideals make a people strong. … decay comes when ideals wane.”

“I am not of those who believe in lackadaisical methods. On the contrary, I advocate a vigorous, thorough, exact mental training which shall fit the mind to expand upon and grasp large things and ye...”

“He who knows naught of dreaming can, likewise, never attain the heights of power and possibility in persuading the mind to act. He who dreams not creates not. For vapor must arise in the air before...”

“Is it not Canon Hole who says: He who would have beautiful roses in his garden, must have beautiful roses in his heart: he must love them well and always? So, the flowers of your field, in so far a...”

“Haste makes waste. Delays are dangerous. He who hesitates is lost. Be bold yet prudent. Ch. 4: The Garden”

“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 scholarship, but by t...”

“Taste is one of the weaker words in our language. It means a little less than something, a little more than nothing; certainly it conveys no suggestion of potency. It savors of accomplishment, in t...”

“I have warned you over and over that for every physical effect there is a psychic cause. You see the effect — the cause is just as visible. Can you imagine that Man is here made in the image of his...”

“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?”

“We are rounding out our absorbing study of Democracy. Thus, turning slowly upon the momentous axis of our theme, are we coming more and more fully into the light of our sun: the refulgent and respl...”

“Among the great modern architects, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Louis Kahn were arguably deists.”