Michael Graves

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

— Michael Graves

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

— Michael Graves

I once got a postcard from a French poet who wrote - "you don't know me but I'm always very grumpy when…

— Michael Graves

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

— Michael Graves

My favorite is the garlic press. I think it's beautiful as an object. But the awkward part of it all is that…

— Michael Graves

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

— Michael Graves

Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the…

— Michael Graves

In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind.…

— Michael Graves

The design of the building addresses the public nature of both the urban context and the internal program. In order to reinforce…

— Michael Graves

Alberto Alessi had asked a dozen architects to design a sterling silver tea service - with a teapot, a coffee pot, sugar,…

— Michael Graves

“Out of my numerous visits I have made to Catfish Plantation, I never photographed an entity like this. It looks like an…

— Michael Graves

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

— Michael Graves

“Amply described blowjobs and anal scenes may stigmatise gay writers.”

— 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

My favorite project is always the next one.

— Michael Graves

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

— Michael Graves

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

— Michael Graves

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

— Michael Graves

The Alessi relationship and the Target one has broadened the role of architects in society and broadened the concept that design belongs…

— Michael Graves

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

— Michael Graves

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

— Michael Graves

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

— Michael Graves

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

— Michael Graves

I learned in architecture that you have to have a real plan. You have to have a client, they have to have…

— Michael Graves

“Sometimes we need fellow radicals to remind us of what we, as writers, have set out to proclaim.”

— Michael Graves