G.E.GRAVES Quotes

In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good

Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason.

My favorite project is always the next one.

There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.

Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.

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

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

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

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.

Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.

Hold on to your dreams of a better life and stay committed to striving to realize it.

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

I wouldn't have been a health care nut if it hadn't been for my paralysis, so something good came from this.

Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must fight

I've always believed that what can make a domestic setting truly home is the infusion of a cultural dimension.

The British soldier who thought himself superior, actually became so.

I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a great deal since then.

What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.

New beginnings and new shoots Spring again from hidden roots Pull or stab or cut or burn, Love must ever yet return.

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it takes concentration, which in our language is consecration.

One smile relieves a heart that grieves.

The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.

Sell to their needs-not from yours.

As you are woman, so be lovely: As you are lovely, so be various, Merciful as constant, constant as various, So be mine, as I yours for ever.

Any honest housewife would sort them out,/ Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples.

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

The Alessi relationship and the Target one has broadened the role of architects in society and broadened the concept that design belongs to everyone.

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

If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.

Fact is not truth, but a poet who wilfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.

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

This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.

A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.

Architects love to rethink a project - that's what we do. If something is successful, like a house or a kettle, in this case, it's a great compliment when someone wants another one.

I stayed true to what I thought was good design no matter who it was for.

Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.

As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.

Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you.

We suspect Dr. Clutterbuck's sense of hearing must be injured: for him the 'ear trumpet' magnifies but distorts sound, rendering it less distinct than before.

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers.

Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.

It may not always be obvious at first, but I think that everyone can make a valuable contribution if only they put their minds to it.

One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.