Architecture Quote by Gustave Eiffel

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

— Gustave Eiffel

“Less than a decade after the Great Exhibition, iron as a structural material was finished—which makes it slightly odd that the most iconic structure…

— Bill Bryson

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

— Gustave Eiffel

“In order to satisfy this great oneiric function, which makes it not a kind of total monument, the [Eiffel] Tower must escape reason. The…

— Roland Barthes

I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more…

— Bill Bryson

Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of a great…

— Roland Barthes

Every time I look at the Eiffel Tower, it completely blows my mind.

— Brian Fallon

“The Tower is not a sacred monument, and no taboo can forbid a commonplace life to develop there, but there can be no question,…

— Roland Barthes

Statues and children frame the Eiffel Tower and its watery image. When the Germans occupied Paris, they housed a beacon light in the Tower…

— Maynard Owen Williams

“As if that was how they built the Colosseum and the pyramids of Giza. Christ, they’d managed to build the Eiffel Tower in 1889,…

— Fredrik Backman

To Monsieur Eiffel the Engineer, the brave builder of so gigantic and original a specimen of modern Engineering from one who has the greatest…

— Thomas A. Edison

Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of the exhibition.…

— Mahatma Gandhi