I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.

Next quotes

• Michael Graves:

  I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

• Michael Graves:

  I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same

• Michael Graves:

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

• Michael Graves:

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

• Michael Graves:

  In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the

• Michael Graves:

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

• Michael Graves:

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

• Michael Graves:

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

• Michael Graves:

  I grew up in a time when Eames and Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright and other architects were pu

• Michael Graves:

  For my first apartment, when I was first married, I went to the lumberyard and bought stuff and mad