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 learned in architecture that you have to have a real plan. You have to have a client, they have to have distribution, start-up money, and have a vision of where it's going to go. All this has to be settled before you start, or else your work is just a story.

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 or mimetic qualities, the facades are organized in a classical three-part division of base, middle or body, and attic or head.

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

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

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

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 affair.

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

I wouldn't have been a health care nut if it hadn't been for my paralysis, so something good came from this.