Cecil Balmond quotes
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“I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content.”
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“It appears that a simple rule, of something adhering to another similar idea, repeated, leads to stabilities. This seems to be a function of relational data sets, linked to rules, like in DNA chains that have infinite adaptability for sequencing proteins. Out of only four bases, which in turn are further limited by two rules of complimentarity, a myriad of forms arise.”
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“The abstract has no emotional content... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is.”
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“Knowing there is a structure, hidden or felt, to the random gives pleasure.”
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“His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.”
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Source : Abraham Hayward (1858). “Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and Corrections”, p.391
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“I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.”
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Source : Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.155, Penguin
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“I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.”
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Source : "Boyd Holbrook On Film". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 30, 2014.
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“The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.”
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