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

- Gustave Eiffel

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

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…

- Gustave Eiffel

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 builder…

- Gustave Eiffel

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…

- Gustave Eiffel

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 givi…

- Gustave Eiffel

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…

- Gustave Eiffel

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 …

- Gustave Eiffel