Michael Graves Quotes

To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.

Landscape architecture is basically geodesign; it's designing geography. And yet geodesign is not only done by landscape architects, it's done by some of the world's largest corporations.

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.

Form follows function.

The future of architecture is culture.

I don't ascribe to any particular style or period.

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms.

When I started studying architecture, people would say, you know, 'Can you tell me why are all modern buildings so boring?' Because, like, people had this idea that in the good old days, architecture had, like, ornament and little towers and spires and gargoyles, and today, it just becomes very practical.

Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.

Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity.

I like white shoes mostly. Sometimes I like simple, sometimes I like strange, but I don't look for anything special.

I like to think I would adapt to the way that any manager who came in would want to play.

I'm open to trying multiple different types of styles.

I am involved in the architecture of space.

Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin or a skull, but you don't know what's inside.

If I'm doing an editorial or if I'm doing a shoot, I will wear anything, and I'll do anything.

I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.

The difference between architecture and engineering comes in only with the creation of schools. It's a bureaucratic distinction. The result of both disciplines is the construction of objects in a landscape.

I have never won big fights just doing one thing, being one-dimensional.

Personally, one of the greatest sources of inspiration for my work has been architecture. I've had the chance to see so many exquisite structures, whether they are historical monuments or modern commercial premises.

I never had a preconceived notion about what I should do or what I should take up… I am not that intelligent.

Right-wing, pivot, centre-back, full-back, right, left. I've never felt uncomfortable anywhere.

I definitely try not to get too caught up in putting too much of a gender or age assessment on everything - I've just got to get on with it.

I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.