Ernest Flagg on Nature
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Ernest Flagg, catalogued under nature, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Ernest Flagg, entry #236032: "Instead of the dormers, skylights... are easier to make and operate, need no double sash, cost less, and some may prefer their appearance."
Attributed to Ernest Flagg, entry #243746: "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."
6 Quotes by Ernest Flagg on Nature
"Instead of the dormers, skylights... are easier to make and operate, need no double sash, cost less, and some may prefer their appearance."
"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."
"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."
"Why can there not be a new art founded on the only principle which can produce great art—the principle that art is the interpretation or extraction of the essence of beauty in nature, and all else is secondary?"
"In the human form, as nature tries to make it, every feature is useful and every feature is beautiful. Each member is perfectly adapted to the function it has to perform; nothing is superfluous, yet the whole and every part is supremely decorative."
"Ridge-dormers have many other advantages. In winter, when closed... it is nature's own method of lighting. Ridge-dormers greatly reduce the height of the building; because bringing into use space heretofore wasted, the eaves may be correspondingly lowered."