Diagonals Quotes by Gustave Eiffel

More Quotes by Gustave Eiffel

Gustave Eiffel has 6 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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

See all 6 quotes by Gustave Eiffel »