Michael Graves – “Good design to me is both appearance and functionality togethe…”
Michael Graves best Design Quotes – “Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It’s the experience that makes it good design.”
Michael Graves
Michael Graves – “In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important t…”
Michael Graves best Design 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.”
Michael Graves – “It was always my goal to ‘up the ante’ on good design, and I’v…”
Michael Graves best Design Quotes – “It was always my goal to ‘up the ante’ on good design, and I’ve devoted much of my career to this.”
Michael Graves – “If I have a style, I am not aware of it.…”
Michael Graves best Design Quotes – “If I have a style, I am not aware of it.”
Michael Graves – “I have no requirements for a style of architecture.…”
Michael Graves best Architecture Quotes – “I have no requirements for a style of architecture.”
Michael Graves – “You can never draw enough or read enough – reading about archi…”
Michael Graves best Architecture Quotes – “You can never draw enough or read enough – reading about architecture, in other words.”
Michael Graves – “The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around…”
Michael Graves best Architecture Quotes – “The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.”
Michael Graves – “I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as …”
Michael Graves best Architecture Quotes – “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.”
Michael Graves – “In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic …”
Michael Graves best Architecture Quotes – “In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.”
Michael Graves – “I don’t believe in morality in architecture.…”
Michael Graves best Architecture Quotes – “I don’t believe in morality in architecture.”
Michael Graves – “The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the …”
Michael Graves best Architecture Quotes – “The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century.”
Michael Graves – “Instead of using the machine as a metaphor for architecture, a…”
Michael Graves best Architecture Quotes – “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.”
Michael Graves – “I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architec…”
Michael Graves best Architecture Quotes – “I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.”
Michael Graves – “I’m working on a school of architecture in China. It’s rare th…”
Michael Graves best Architecture Quotes – “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.”
Michael Graves – “For my first apartment, when I was first married, I went to th…”
Michael Graves best Architecture Quotes – “For 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.”