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In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
— Michael Graves
I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.
— Michael Graves
You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.
— Michael Graves
Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.
— Michael Graves
I lived as best I could, and then I died. Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.
— Michael R. Burch
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.
— Michael Graves
I've always believed that what can make a domestic setting truly home is the infusion of a cultural dimension.
— Michael Graves
Amply described blowjobs and anal scenes may stigmatise gay writers.
— Michael Graves
I don't clean now, because I'm paralyzed. But let me tell you, I would clean. I cleaned, and I ironed. It's my inner femininity.
— Michael Graves
History's greatest composers world be rolling in their graves if they knew that their beautiful compositions were reduced to distorted hold music.
— Michael P. Naughton
I have no requirements for a style of architecture.
— 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
The Alessi relationship and the Target one has broadened the role of architects in society and broadened the concept that design belongs to everyone.
— Michael Graves
In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.
— Michael Graves
I don't believe in morality in architecture.
— Michael Graves
If I have a style, I am not aware of it.
— 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
I know that's not something that people like to do - identify a favorite. But I do.
— Michael Graves
My favorite project is always the next one.
— Michael Graves
Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design.
— 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.
— Michael Graves
I believe well-designed places and objects can actually improve healing, while poor design can inhibit it.
— Michael Graves
I've discovered the secret of revenge. Outlive the fers! I'll dance on their graves. — Michael Robotham
I wouldn't have been a health care nut if it hadn't been for my paralysis, so something good came from this.
— Michael Graves
Sometimes we need fellow radicals to remind us of what we, as writers, have set out to proclaim.
— 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
The avant garde is so narcissistic.
— Michael Graves