"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."
-Michael Graves
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"It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this."
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"I don't believe in morality in architecture."
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"Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved."
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"Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture."
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"Architecture aims at Eternity."
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"First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture."
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