Art Quote by Gustave Eiffel

“The Tower is not a usual spectacle; to enter the Tower, to scale it, to run around its courses, is, in a manner both…

— Roland Barthes

Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

“To visit the Tower, then, is to enter into contact not with a historical Sacred, as is the case for the majority of monuments,…

— Roland Barthes

“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

“We would never say to a man, "Be eccentric"; but if he cannot help being so, we would not have him be otherwise. The…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

The chief characteristics of the tall building is that it is lofty. It must be every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in…

— Louis Sullivan

I think there will be a 200-story skyscraper someday. However, it will require a developer who will not think in conventional terms and for…

— Helmut Jahn

In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.

— Alain Robert

One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic.

— Rem Koolhaas

The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai...

— Fareed Zakaria

Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the…

— Michael Mandelbaum