Quotes by Michael Graves

“I dont care what people call me,labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.”

“The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.”

“I have no requirements for a style of architecture.”

“I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.”

“As an architect Ive always believed that what can make a domestic setting truly home is the infusion of a cultural dimension.”

“It was always my goal to up the ante on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this.”

“If I have a style, I am not aware of it.”

“In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good.”

“I have a requirement for myself in making designations of elements. I need to have full language and I do not want the language to be only space.”

Sometimes we need fellow radicals to remind us of what we, as writers, have set out to proclaim.

In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.

I dont believe in morality in architecture.

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.

Instead of using the machine as a metaphor for architecture, as Le Corbusier did, I use the human body. I want the public to know that its them Im designing for.

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

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

For my first apartment, when I was first married, I went to the lumberyard and bought stuff and made couches. My then-wife made cushions. I was really very interested in furniture. I was in school for architecture, but I had to live, and making furniture was different from designing buildings, which I couldnt do for myself.