ROBERT MAILLART, SALGINATOBEL BRIDGE, SCHIERS 1930
"One of the problems in art (…) is the relationship between sculpture and nature, panting, and architecture. It is easier for the constructor to find a convincing solution than an a artist, because physical dictate his conditions. All the same, there is something altogether out of the ordinary in the way Maillart succeeds both in expressing and in sublimating the breadth of chasm cleft between two walls rock." S. Giedion, 1941
"His shapely bridges spring out of shapeless crags with the serene inevitability of Greek temples." S. Giedion, 1941
"from purely technical to genuine artistic visions" M. Bill, 1955
"If one is to search for parallels with Maillart’s structural form, one is most likely to find them in abstract sculpture or else in nature." W.J.R. Curtis, 1982