Author: Michael Graves

Quotes

I had been designing for Alessi and Swid Powell and Steuben and high-end people, and people always complained, 'Michael, we'd love to buy your stuff, but it's too expensive.'

I had been designing for Alessi and Swid Powell and Steuben and high-end people, and people always complained, 'Michael, we'd love to buy your stuff, but it's too expensive.'

- Michael Graves

I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I'm so pleased that they asked me.

I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I'm so pleased that they asked me.

- Michael Graves

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

- Michael Graves

I believe well-designed places and objects can actually improve healing, while poor design can inhibit it.

I believe well-designed places and objects can actually improve healing, while poor design can inhibit it.

- Michael Graves

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

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

- Michael Graves

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

- Michael Graves

When I design a building, I'm making sure you and I can get to the front door, there's enough of a threshold for entry, and that the rooms are in a logical sequence.

When I design a building, I'm making sure you and I can get to the front door, there's enough of a threshold for entry, and that the rooms are in a logical sequence.

- Michael Graves

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

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

- Michael Graves

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.

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.

- Michael Graves

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