An architect, to be a true exponent of his time, must possess first, last and always the sympathy, … - Louis Sullivan

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"There are one or two elementary rules to be observed in the way of handling patients," he remarked, seating himself on the table and swinging his legs. "The most obvious is that you must never let them see that you want them. It should be pure condescension on your part seeing them at all; and the more difficulties you throw in the way of it, the more they think of it. Break your patients in early, and keep them well to heel. "

Louis Sullivan

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.

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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.

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Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

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

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

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Form ever follows function.

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