Michael Graves famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

My favorite project is always the next one.
-- Michael Graves

#Next #My Favorite #Projects
If I have a style, I am not aware of it.
-- Michael Graves

#Style #Architecture
I have no requirements for a style of architecture.
-- Michael Graves

#Style #Requirements #Architecture
The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.
-- Michael Graves

#Ideas #Long #Architecture
I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.
-- Michael Graves

#People #Labels #Care
The design of the building addresses the public nature of both the urban context and the internal program. In order to reinforce the building's associative or mimetic qualities, the facades are organized in a classical three-part division of base, middle or body, and attic or head.
-- Michael Graves

#Order #Design #Quality
I've always believed that what can make a domestic setting truly home is the infusion of a cultural dimension.
-- Michael Graves

#Home #Dimensions #Infusion
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

#Feel Good #Design #Mind
It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this
-- Michael Graves

#Careers #Goal #Design
In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.
-- Michael Graves

#America #Creative #Liberty
I don't believe in morality in architecture.
-- Michael Graves

#Believe #Architecture #Morality
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
-- Michael Graves

#Architecture #Function #Equity
Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.
-- Michael Graves

#Design #Architecture #Affair

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