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Michael Graves Quotes

American - Architect | July 9, 1934 - March 12, 2015

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

Truth Architecture Long Dialogue Too

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

Style Architecture Requirements

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

Style I Am Design Aware Am

I grew up in a time when Eames and Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright and other architects were putting their furniture and objects on the market. You could buy some of those objects on the open market. Eames was a huge influence on all of us in school.

Time School Influence You Furniture

For my first apartment, when I was first married, I went to the lumberyard and bought stuff and made couches. My then-wife made cushions. I was really very interested in furniture. I was in school for architecture, but I had to live, and making furniture was different from designing buildings, which I couldn't do for myself.

Live Myself Architecture School

When I started my own practice, I was criticized, not because I was doing product design but because, like Le Corbusier, I was insisting on paintings in all of my buildings. I would paint wall murals in the houses that I designed, just as he did in the '20s and '30s.

Practice Design Doing Buildings Wall

I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.

Architecture School Building Worst

You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.

Architecture Words Reading Enough

On the first day I got my wheelchair, I was also given all my clothes for the next day, a little pile on the chair. I was so proud of myself for getting it all on - the socks and everything. Dressing is a struggle, and it can take up to an hour and a half.

Myself Day Struggle Proud Chair

The avant garde is so narcissistic.

When I design a building, I'm making sure you and I can get to the front door, there's enough of a threshold for entry, and that the rooms are in a logical sequence.

Door Building Design Enough You Get

Someone once told me they didn't like taking the lid off the kettle because they'd just lose it in the kitchen, so we made a kettle with an attached lid that you slide. It was in response to that that we made one that did something different.

Me Kitchen Someone You Lose Off

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