Michael Graves Quotes
17 Michael Graves quotes:
"If I have a style, I am not aware of it."
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"In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function."
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"It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this."
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"The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth."
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"It really warmed my heart,"
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"The daughter said, 'Look at these things -- these are terrific.' The mother agreed, 'These are really cool things. I'd buy a tea kettle if they had one.'"
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"Design has nothing to do with economic class. If I were designing for Cartier or Tiffany, I would expend the same energy."
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"I think it's a really good way to get people to come up here. It's good to expand your mind by meeting people of other countries and beliefs, a good experience."
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"This is one of the few things that would make me instantly drop Northwest as a carrier of choice."
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"I have no requirements for a style of architecture."
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"I don't care what people call me,labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people."
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"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."
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"At the time we were planning the building, ... Joyce wanted to include a sensory park. But the budget wouldn't let us do both projects, so we agreed to work on the park when there was money to do so."
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"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."
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"I don't believe in morality in architecture."
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"I have a requirement for myself in making designations of elements. I need to have full language and I do not want the language to be only space."
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"As an architect I've always believed that what can make a domestic setting truly home is the infusion of a cultural dimension."
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