“ In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function. 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. Michael Graves
“ I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus. Michael Graves
“ Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design. Michael Graves
“ When I started my own practice, I was criticized, not because I was doing product design but because, like Le Corbusier, I was insisting on paintings in all of my buildings. I would paint wall murals… 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
“ It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this. Michael Graves
“ The cost is minimal, but one of the things that you want in a universal design is to make the plan as open as you can... and to still have walls around bedrooms and that sort of thing, and to keep the… Michael Graves
“ 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 believe well-designed places and objects can actually improve healing, while poor design can inhibit it. Michael Graves
“ You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words. Michael Graves
“ 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 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… Michael Graves
“ 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
“ Good design should be available to everyone - and I do mean everyone. What I spent on the wheelchair I'm in could buy a small Mercedes. It's not only unfair to me it's unfair to someone who's indigent… Michael Graves
