Robert Sapolsky Quotes

A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of 1932, a picaresque narrative that captivated many who hadn't the slightest inkling of what architects actually did.

You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.

My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.

When he was eighteen, my dad went off to college to become an architect.

I'm really into architecture, I'm a member of the Brutalist Appreciation Society; I'm a member of the Postmodern Society. I write letters to save buildings.

You could say that I had become possessed, in the classical sense, by the art of the great architects of the past. And that led me to engineering.

I have high aspirations. I want to be an architect.

I'd like to be an architect. That would be cool. I like drawing.

I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect, and how best to contribute in this world filled with contradiction, disparity, and inequality, even passion and opportunity.

The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.

Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.

The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about what's in style, what's current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem that has some of those qualities.

The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century.

I do not follow the rules of fashion, and I don't like to be considered a man of the world of fashion. I like to call it the 'style industry' because we try to work on taste.

My aunt looked like Lucille Ball, and everything she touched was beautiful and elegant. But I was intelligent enough to understand I would never be like her.

It's hard to run away from who you are, and when your taste is formed is a very important thing.

How can you say when you're attracted to something? It's not easy to articulate my tastes.

I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.

I spent, whether consciously or unconsciously, most of my career trying to be something other than William F. Buckley's son.

I'm a trained architect. Both my parents were architects.

I wanted to be a cartoonist, but there was no cartoon academy. So I enrolled in the Royal Danish Art Academy School of Architecture. But then I really got smitten by architecture.

I overheard people saying, 'She thinks she's so great because she's Debbie Reynolds' daughter!' And I didn't like it; it made me different from other people, and I wanted to be the same.

I think you're either born with a sense of style, or you're not.

I'd never known of an architect as a young man. I think there was only one architect in Tucuman.