Ernest Flagg Short Quotes

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Style... the very hall-mark of great art... there is little use in trying to define style.

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There have always seemed to the writer sound reasons for using the module system in architectural design.

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The object of this work is to improve the design and construction of small houses while reducing their cost.

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Reason requires all things to have a use and be appropriate and fitted to the purpose for which they are used.

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Greek art was extremely simple and direct; both in design and construction the Greek mind abhorred complicaton.

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A master in art need not go into the highways and byways for affects; he knows the straight course and follows it.

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The qualities called personal... and the ability to impart them, in greater or less degree, is the gage of genius in art.

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While it is not hard to suggest improvements on common methods of design and construction, it is very hard to introduce them.

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Saving of time, trouble, and money in the preparation of plans by the module system, and the standardization of parts and methods.

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The best art, and the only art which will ever lead to great results, must have for its basis the interpretation of beauty in nature.

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Refinement. While the possession of this quality is due, in the first instance, to education, it is also largely a matter of temperament.

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Instead of the dormers, skylights... are easier to make and operate, need no double sash, cost less, and some may prefer their appearance.

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For more than two thousand years architectural design by the use of a modulus, except in the case of the classic orders, had been a lost art.

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Economy in building consists in the aggregate of a great number of savings, which when considered separately may seem trivial, but when combined are important.

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Dormers may easily lose, in winter, the credit they gained in summer.... If, however, they are properly made and securely closed in cold weather, this will not happen.

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Beauty is largely dependent on fitness, and fitting methods are usually the most convenient and economical; therein, indeed, to a great extent, lies their very fitness.

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Variety.... Movement, contrast, and accent all contribute to variety... the spice of life... Monotony and dryness are lurking enemies which may be vanquished by variety.

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With dignity and simplicity come repose... the natural state of one at home in his surroundings and sure of his ground. Repose is a distinguished characteristic of Greek art.

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One of the best ways to economize in building is to economize on ugliness.... Nothing can be greater service in avoiding ugliness than a knowledge of the principles of design.

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Certain combinations of dimensions produce harmonious results, but since the time of the ancient Greeks no system of design, consistently base on that knowledge, has been formulated.

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The Greeks were men of sense; if they used the system they did so for a purpose, as artists rather than mathematicians and imperceptible irregularities could not affect that purpose.

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The chief difficulty in designing small houses is to avoid an excessive appearance of height.... the ridge-dormer or its equivalent, the ridge skylight, would open a whole new field of opportunity...

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