Gustave Eiffel Quotes
- The fundamental idea of these pylons, or great archways, is based on a method of construction peculiar to me, of which the principle consists in…
- The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its use.
- There is an attraction and a charm inherent in the colossal that is not subject to ordinary theories of art ... The tower will be…
- It seems to me that it had no other rationale than to show that we are not simply the country of entertainers, but also that…
- Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it [the Eiffel Tower] is one…
- Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful, as well as…