Sullivan Art Quotes - (6 quotes)

John Sullivan Dwight - From the Windows category:

-on the paintings of Christopher Pearse Cranch...
Were there not these still mirrors to reflect the beauty of the heavens to us, it might be lost to eyes so seldom lifted upwards. (John Sullivan Dwight)

Anne Sullivan - From the Experience category:

-teacher of Helen Keller...
Let the child go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself, instead of sitting indoors at a little round table, while a sweet-voiced teacher suggests that he build a stone wall with his wooden blocks, or make a rainbow out of strips of coloured paper, or plant straw trees in bead flower-pots. Such teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of, before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experience. (Anne Sullivan)

Anne Sullivan - From the Suffering category:

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved. (Anne Sullivan)

Anne Sullivan - From the Words category:

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences... Good work in language presupposes and depends on a real knowledge of things. (Anne Sullivan)

Faith Sullivan - From the Vision category:

I was pierced by the little panic and tristesse occasioned by small things passing irrevocably from view. (Faith Sullivan)

Louis H. Sullivan - From the Architecture category:

Form ever follows function. (Louis H. Sullivan)