Michael Graves Quotes

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• My favorite project is always the next one.
• I don't believe in morality in architecture.
• 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.
• In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.
• It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this
• 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…
• I've always believed that what can make a domestic setting truly home is the infusion of a cultural dimension.
• The design of the building addresses the public nature of both the urban context and the internal program. In order to reinforce the building's associative…
• I have no requirements for a style of architecture.
• I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.
• The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.
• 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…
• 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…

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