"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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"The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth."
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"I don't believe in morality in architecture."
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"In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function."
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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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"If I have a style, I am not aware of it."
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"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space."
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