Ove Arup famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.

  • While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.

  • Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.

  • As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.

  • How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography."

  • The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.

  • I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing MBA, engineering or medicine.

  • Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.

  • Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.

  • I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.