Michael Graves Quotes

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

My favorite project is always the next one.

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.

If I have a style, I am not aware of it.

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

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.

I wouldn't have been a health care nut if it hadn't been for my paralysis, so something good came from this.

I've always believed that what can make a domestic setting truly home is the infusion of a cultural dimension.

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this

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 Alessi relationship and the Target one has broadened the role of architects in society and broadened the concept that design belongs to everyone.

In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

I stayed true to what I thought was good design no matter who it was for.

Architects love to rethink a project - that's what we do. If something is successful, like a house or a kettle, in this case, it's a great compliment when someone wants another one.

My favorite is the garlic press. I think it's beautiful as an object. But the awkward part of it all is that I don't use it much because I'm allergic to garlic.

I know that's not something that people like to do - identify a favorite. But I do.

When 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.

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

I believe well-designed places and objects can actually improve healing, while poor design can inhibit it.

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.

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

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

I'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.

The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century.

Instead 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.

I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.

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.