Louis Sullivan, in The Public Papers, p. 156.
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Nor am I of those who despise dreamers. For the world would be at the level of zero were it not for its dreamers - gone and of today.

— Louis Sullivan on Despise

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Louis Sullivan

About Louis Sullivan

Louis Henry Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924) was an American architect, the "father of modernism", and a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright.