Ernest Flagg: Greatness

Ernest Flagg was American architect. Explore interesting quotes on greatness.
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“Where the processes and apparatus is used, over and over again, great economy should result”

Ernest Flagg

Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)
Context: The system of building, described in this work, is intended for repetition. It would hardly pay to adopt it in its entirety for a single house if the matter were to end there. Where the processes and apparatus is used, over and over again, great economy should result; but for a single building, the trouble and expense of introducing so many new or unusual features and methods, might well offset the benefits which should accrue under more favorable conditions. Standardization both of parts and workmanship plays a great part in the economies obtained and standardization implies quantity.<!--Ch. I

“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?”

Ernest Flagg

Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)
Context: 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?<!-- Introduction

Beauty , Art , Nature

“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.”

Ernest Flagg

Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922), Introduction

Beauty , Dependency

“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.”

Ernest Flagg

Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922), Introduction

Beauty , Art , Nature

“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. The list of those here provided for… may be divided into classes as follows:”

Ernest Flagg

Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)
Context: 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. The list of those here provided for... may be divided into classes as follows:<!-- Introduction

“When the necessity for shelter is great and the means for obtaining it scant, flimsy and makeshift methods of building find ready acceptance; and once introduced are hard to eradicate. Such habits, formed here in early times, still influence construction; as abundantly proved by our inordinate fire loss…”

Ernest Flagg

Introduction
Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

Loss , Time

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

Ernest Flagg

Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

Art

“The most economical way of obtaining good results is to apply the great, fundamental principles of art; and depend on them for beauty, rather than upon the use of either applied ornament or more expensive materials… much better results are likely to accrue from truth than falsehood, and from architectural [rather] than archaeological methods.”

Ernest Flagg

Introduction
Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

Truth , Beauty , Art , Way

“A Greek architect of the great epoch would no more have thought of omitting the mark of the harmonic scale of proportion, on which the design was based, than would the composer of music think of omitting the harmonic scale of his composition.”

Ernest Flagg

Source: Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922), Ch. II

Music , Thinking

“Interest…. a design to be great must have great interest…. the most potent of all ways to impart interest is to endow the design with beauty of form, and… the one which makes the strongest appeal to human interest and admiration is physical beauty in human shape.”

Ernest Flagg

Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

Beauty , Way