01UndatedSometimes we need fellow radicals to remind us of what we, as writers, have set out to proclaim.Michael Graves / quote ↗
02UndatedIn America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.Michael Graves / quote ↗
03UndatedI 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 / quote ↗
04UndatedIn any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.Michael Graves / quote ↗
07UndatedI taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.Michael Graves / quote ↗
08UndatedInstead 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 it's them I'm designing for.Michael Graves / quote ↗
09UndatedThe oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century.Michael Graves / quote ↗
10UndatedThe dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.Michael Graves / quote ↗
11UndatedFor 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 couldn't do for myself.Michael Graves / quote ↗
12UndatedI'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 / quote ↗
13UndatedYou can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.Michael Graves / quote ↗
14UndatedGood design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design.Michael Graves / quote ↗
16UndatedIn 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 / quote ↗
17UndatedI believe well-designed places and objects can actually improve healing, while poor design can inhibit it.Michael Graves / quote ↗
18UndatedIt was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design, and I've devoted much of my career to this.Michael Graves / quote ↗
19UndatedWhen I started my own practice, I was criticized, not because I was doing product design but because, like Le Corbusier, I was insisting on paintings in all of my buildings. I would paint wall murals in the houses that I designed, just as he did in the '20s and '30s.Michael Graves / quote ↗
20UndatedWhen 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 / quote ↗
21UndatedThe cost is minimal, but one of the things that you want in a universal design is to make the plan as open as you can... and to still have walls around bedrooms and that sort of thing, and to keep the corridors wide enough so the wheelchair can do a 360 in the corridor.Michael Graves / quote ↗
22UndatedGood design should be available to everyone - and I do mean everyone. What I spent on the wheelchair I'm in could buy a small Mercedes. It's not only unfair to me it's unfair to someone who's indigent but has the same needs. My goal is to make all objects affordable.Michael Graves / quote ↗
