Michael Graves Quotes

I'd like to be an architect. That would be cool. I like drawing.

My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.

I love architecture.

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it. I fell completely in love with architecture, and I remain in love with it.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

I'm really into architecture, I'm a member of the Brutalist Appreciation Society; I'm a member of the Postmodern Society. I write letters to save buildings.

I love art in general - architecture, anything creative.

When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like to believe that architecture connects the present with the past and the tangible with the intangible.

I am very interested in architecture. I've been asked if I'd ever direct, but me, I'd rather build. It's very similar to directing, because you get to walk among this piece of art, to live in it, be surrounded by it, which is just thrilling.

I have high aspirations. I want to be an architect.

Architecture theory is very interesting.

To be an architect has been a life-long dream. Little did I know when asked at the age of 14 'what do you want to do when you grow up?' I said I wanted to be an architect. After 50 years I am still learning all what that means. Working together with so many people has been enormously gratifying. Being an architect means being a member of a fantastic team.

I always had some kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.

Architects cannot teach nature anything.

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of 1932, a picaresque narrative that captivated many who hadn't the slightest inkling of what architects actually did.

I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

I'm fascinated with design. I realized early that I had no talent in that direction, but I love talking with architects and designers about what they do. I appreciate applied creativity as a source of pleasure and meaning.

What better way to expand your imagination than to read!

I've always been interested in art, architecture, color.

Paris is an ideal place to become informed, while Venice is a place to think and write.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

Every single book is a challenge.