79 Quotes by Michael Graves

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

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

I have a requirement for myself in making designations of elements. I need to have full language and I do not want the language to be only space.

Form must never trump function. Some objects are made to look so smooth, you don't know where to pick them up or how to turn them on. If I'm designing a garlic press or cheese grater, I need my hand to fit comfortably on it. I like to know, instinctively, how to use it.

Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design.

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 but has the same needs. My goal is to make all objects affordable.

I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.

I think it's a really good way to get people to come up here. It's good to expand your mind by meeting people of other countries and beliefs, a good experience.

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.