Cecil Balmond quotes

Cecil Balmond quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content.”
-- Cecil Balmond

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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.”
-- Cecil Balmond

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“The abstract has no emotional content... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is.”
-- Cecil Balmond

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“Knowing there is a structure, hidden or felt, to the random gives pleasure.”
-- Cecil Balmond

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“His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.”
“The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation, the most choice delicacies, prepared in the most scientific manner; whereas the gourmand bears a closer analogy to that class of great eaters ill-naturedly (we dare say) denominated, or classed with, aldermen.”

Source : Abraham Hayward (1858). “Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and Corrections”, p.391
“Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?”
“I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.”
“I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos. A place where I'd felt instantly at home.”

Source : Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.155, Penguin
“I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.”
“I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.”
“I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.”

Source : "Boyd Holbrook On Film". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 30, 2014.
“As a child I wanted to become an architect.”
“The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.”

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