Instead of using the machine as a metaphor for architecture, as Le Corbusier did, I use the human body. I want the public to know that it's them I'm designing for.

Michael Graves
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  1. Sometimes we need fellow radicals to remind us of what we, as writers, have set out to proclaim.

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

  3. I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

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

  5. I don't believe in morality in architecture.

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