Louis Sullivan Quotes

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Architecture is a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history.

Architecture would lead us to all the arts, as it did with earlier mean: but if we despise it and take no note of how we are housed, the other arts will have a hard time of it indeed.

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only such architecture is creative.

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms.

I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

Architecture aims at Eternity.

Architecture is a political art connecting our values to the ages.

Though I love the arts with all my heart - paintings, sculpture, theatre, and music - and think they are among the biggest achievements we humans can do, I am really convinced that architecture is among the most important.

The difference between architecture and engineering comes in only with the creation of schools. It's a bureaucratic distinction. The result of both disciplines is the construction of objects in a landscape.

I am very interested in architecture. I've been asked if I'd ever direct, but me, I'd rather build. It's very similar to directing, because you get to walk among this piece of art, to live in it, be surrounded by it, which is just thrilling.

Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride.

Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.