Gustave Eiffel famous quotes

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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 solid and long lasting structures? Aren't the genuine functions of strength always in keeping with unwritten conditions of harmony? ... Besides, there is an attraction, a special charm in the colossal to which ordinary theories of art do not apply.
-- Gustave Eiffel

#Beautiful #Art #Science
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 giving to the edges of the pyramid a curve of such a nature that this pyramid shall be capable of resisting the force of the wind without necessitating the junction of the edges by diagonals as is usually done.
-- Gustave Eiffel

#Curves #Wind #Ideas
Ah, bien je prÃ©tends que les courbes des quatre areÃªtes du monument, telles que le calcul les a fournies, donneront une grand impression de force et de beautÃ©. Well, I think the curves of the four pillars of the monument, as the calculations have provided them, give it a great sense of force and beauty.
-- Gustave Eiffel

#Thinking #Curves #Engineering
The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its use.
-- Gustave Eiffel

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There is an attraction and a charm inherent in the colossal that is not subject to ordinary theories of art ... The tower will be the tallest edifice ever raised by man. Will it therefore be imposing in its own way?
-- Gustave Eiffel

#Art #Men #Ordinary
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 of engineers and builders called from across the world to build bridges, viaducts, stations and major monuments of modern industry, the Eiffel Tower deserves to be treated with consideration.
-- Gustave Eiffel

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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 of the most striking of our modern national genius.
-- Gustave Eiffel

#Art #Science #Europe
The French flag is the only one to have a staff a thousand feet tall.
-- Gustave Eiffel

#Feet #Flags #Staff
Ah, bien je prétends que les courbes des quatre areêtes du monument, telles que le calcul les a fournies, donneront une grand impression de force et de beauté. Well, I think the curves of the four pillars of the monument, as the calculations have provided them, give it a great sense of force and beauty.
-- Gustave Eiffel

#Thinking #Curves #Engineering

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. Winning is important to any man's or woman's sense of satisfaction and well-being. Winning is not everything; but it is something powerful, indeed beautiful, in itself, something as necessary to the strong spirit as striving is necessary to the healthy character.
How clear, how lovely bright, How beautiful to sight Those beams of morning play; How heaven laughs out with glee Where, like a bird set free, Up from the eastern sea Soars the delightful day. To-day I shall be strong, No more shall yield to wrong, Shall squander life no more; Days lost, I know not how, I shall retrieve them now; Now I shall keep the vow I never kept before. Ensanguining the skies How heavily it dies Into the west away; Past touch and sight and sound Not further to be found, How hopeless under ground Falls the remorseful day.
I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.
Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? "I'm glad you asked that. I've been wanting to say this for years. Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art - when it is in the hands of artists."
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
I value science--none can prize it more, It gives ten thousand motives to adore: Be it religious, as it ought to be, The heart it humbles, and it bows the knee.
But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader.
Why don't you light that candle ?

Gustave Eiffel famous quotes

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