Skip to content

Gustave Eiffel

10 quotes in 99 categories

[Wikipedia] Alexandre Gustave Eiffel was a French civil engineer. A graduate of École Centrale des Arts et Métiers, he made his name with various bridges for the French railway network, most famously the Garabit Viaduct. He is best known for the Eiffel Tower, designed by his company and built for the 1889 Unive

Quotes by Gustave Eiffel

“Étant la plus saisissante manifestation de l'art des constructions métalliques par lesquelles nos ingénieurs se sont illustrés en Europe, elle est une…

Architecture

Image

Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it [the Eiffel…

Architecture

Image

The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its…

Appropriateness

Image

It seems to me that it had no other rationale than to show that we are not simply the country of entertainers,…

Bridges

Image

Ah, bien je prétends que les courbes des quatre areêtes du monument, telles que le calcul les a fournies, donneront une grand…

Calculations

Image

There is an attraction and a charm inherent in the colossal that is not subject to ordinary theories of art ... The…

Art

Image

The fundamental idea of these pylons, or great archways, is based on a method of construction peculiar to me, of which the…

Archways

Image

Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful,…

Art

Image

“I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am.”

Eiffel tower

Image

The French flag is the only one to have a staff a thousand feet tall.

Feet

Image