Ernest Flagg on Knowledge
Browse 5 quotations attributed to Ernest Flagg, catalogued under knowledge, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Ernest Flagg, entry #107069: "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."
Attributed to Ernest Flagg, entry #202144: "Refinement. While the possession of this quality is due, in the first instance, to education, it is also largely a matter of temperament."
5 Quotes by Ernest Flagg on Knowledge
"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."
"Refinement. While the possession of this quality is due, in the first instance, to education, it is also largely a matter of temperament."
"A master in art need not go into the highways and byways for affects; he knows the straight course and follows it."
"The most perfectly constructed object in nature, and also the most beautiful object in nature, is the human form as it approaches perfection. This, then, is the criterion of construction as it is of design. The study of its beauties is the veritable key to art..."
"When one understands the principles of design, his taste will have something more solid as a basis than mere whim or fancy, which in the untutored is more likely to be bad than good. Acquainted with the rules of good design he will not accept articles made in defiance of them."