Quotes by Michael Graves

• I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.
• I don't believe in morality in architecture.
• The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.
• It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this.
• 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.
• If I have a style, I am not aware of it.
• 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 have no requirements for a style of architecture.
• In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.