Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Cass Gilbert

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American architect Cass Gilbert.

Last updated on December 20, 2024.

Cass Gilbert was a prominent American architect. An early proponent of skyscrapers, his works include the Woolworth Building, the United States Supreme Court building, the state capitols of Minnesota, Arkansas and West Virginia; and the Detroit Public Library, the Saint Louis Art Museum and Public Library. His public buildings in the Beaux Arts style reflect the optimistic American sense that the nation was heir to Greek democracy, Roman law and Renaissance humanism. Gilbert's achievements were recognized in his lifetime; he served as president of the American Institute of Architects in 1908–09.

American - Architect | November 29, 1859 - May 17, 1934

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Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure.

Cass Gilbert

It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.

Cass Gilbert

I loved the excitement and the pleasures of life in New York, the opportunities for advancement, the pursuit of ambition, the theaters, the places of amusement, and such nights as the last I spent with you just as I was leaving for the West.

Cass Gilbert

Humble birth did not retard his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul.

Cass Gilbert

A skyscraper is a machine that makes the land pay.

Cass Gilbert

To become an Architect in the right sense of the word means that a man shall give his life to it and nothing else, and shall study the work he has to do with enthusiastic interest in every detail pertaining to it, and content himself with nothing less than complete success.

Cass Gilbert

I am learning to live, and to see beauty in everything.

Cass Gilbert

The Capitol is the best work I have ever done, or shall ever do, and I am glad to have Given it to St. Paul.

Cass Gilbert