Top 35 Quotes by Michael Graves

About Michael Graves

These are some quotes by American author Michael Graves Architect, who was born on July 9, 1934.

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

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

Michael Graves

When I design a building, I'm making sure you and I can get to the front door, there's enough of a threshold for entry, and that the rooms are in a logical sequence.

When I design a building, I'm making sure you and I can get to the front door, there's enough of a threshold for entry, and that the rooms are in a logical sequence.

Michael Graves

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

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

Michael Graves

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

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

Michael Graves

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.

Michael Graves

The avant garde is so narcissistic.

The avant garde is so narcissistic.

Michael Graves

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

Michael Graves

As a child, I was obsessed with drawing things, like Mickey and Donald. And houses. My mother was worried I'd become an artist.

As a child, I was obsessed with drawing things, like Mickey and Donald. And houses. My mother was worried I'd become an artist.

Michael Graves

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

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

Michael Graves

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

Michael Graves

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