Stanley Donwood Quotes

#1. In America, the colors sing, they don't just glower at you. The West Coast especially is fantastic. It seems like you can do whatever you want here.

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#2. The music is a continuing thing.

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#3. It is only very slightly later, when my client's head is sliced off, that I realise I have made an error. My career is finished.

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#4. I'm trying to be slightly happier with myself. No one really wants to be miserable all the time.

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#5. I come from a generation in England that considered making money or trying to promote yourself to be morally suspect.

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#6. Computers don't seem real to me because there's a sheet of glass between you and whatever is happening.

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#7. You never really get to touch anything that you're doing unless you print it out. I don't really enjoy making artwork on a computer because it doesn't seem like I've done anything.

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#8. Music is something you hear in your head, that's all, we shouldn't give it more than it is.

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#9. I liked taking the elements of roadside advertising out of context because it removes the imperative and just goes to the essence of it - the pure heart of advertising.

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#10. I really love it when you get that strange combination of feelings that play against each other.

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#11. I grew up in the 80s and that was the first time advertising was considered seriously as anything resembling an art form.

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#12. I love going somewhere like Japan where you can't understand a word of the advertising - you just see it for its aesthetic beauty, without feeling that you're being sold something.

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#13. Growing up and living in England, I'm surrounded by grey skies and sarcasm, so when I came to America, my first impressions were bright, hopeful, cheerful.

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#14. The packaging for music has become a sort of King James Bible, where it elevates the contents to something more spiritual. This is something else that drove me to a newspaper format. I thought, "Let's put it in a newspaper, to get away from that spiritual thing."

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