Author: Michael Graves

Quotes

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

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

Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design.

Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design.

- Michael Graves

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

- Michael Graves

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

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

- Michael Graves

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

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

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

- 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

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design, and I've devoted much of my career to this.

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design, and I've devoted much of my career to this.

- Michael Graves

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