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“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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Louis Sullivan

Emotional Architecture as Compared to Intellectual (1894)

“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 means at the cost of those lofty illusions we call patriotism, veneration, love.”

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Education (1902)

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

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Louis Sullivan

Education (1902)