Quote#Art
The true architectural art, that art toward which I would lead you,…
Quote byLouis Sullivan · 1856–1924
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Kindergarten Chats (1918), Ch. 10 : A Roman Temple.
English (original)
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 the touch-stone of humanity.
— Louis Sullivan
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