Quotes by : Michael Graves

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design, and I've devoted much of my career to this.

When I design a building, I'm making sure you and I can get to the front door, there's enough of a threshold....

In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine....

Good design should be available to everyone - and I do mean everyone. What I spent on the wheelchair....

The cost is minimal, but one of the things that you want in a universal design is to make the plan as....

Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good....

In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty....

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

Instead of using the machine as a metaphor for architecture, as Le Corbusier did, I use the human body.....

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