Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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's Popular Quotes

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

- Michael Graves

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 vi…

- Michael Graves

I stayed true to what I thought was good design no matter who it was for.

- Michael Graves

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

- 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

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

- Michael Graves

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

- Michael Graves

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

I once got a postcard from a French poet who wrote - "you don't know me but I'm always very grumpy when I get up in morning. But when I get up now I …

- Michael Graves