Michael Graves Quotes

"I don't believe in morality in architecture."
- Michael Graves
(Related: Architecture, Morality)

"The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth."
- Michael Graves
(Related: Architecture, Truth, Idea)

"It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this."
- Michael Graves
(Related: Design, Goal, Career)

"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."
- Michael Graves
(Related: Day, Hardware, Machine, Mind)

"If I have a style, I am not aware of it."
- Michael Graves
(Related: Style)

"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
(Related: Architecture, Music, Poetry, Truth, Invention, Painting)

"I have no requirements for a style of architecture."
- Michael Graves
(Related: Architecture, Style)

"In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function."
- Michael Graves
(Related: Architecture)