Donwood Quotes

#1. 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.

Stanley Donwood

#2. Your time for crossing is over. Now you must help Harlin find the Forgotten and lead them to their destinies. And, of course, extinguish the Shadows where you can.

Suzanne Young

#3. 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."

Stanley Donwood

#4. 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.

Stanley Donwood

#5. 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.

Stanley Donwood

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

Stanley Donwood

#7. There is no better teacher than history in determining the future... There are answers worth billions of dollars in 30$ history book.

Charles T. Munger

#8. There's no down time any more.

Jeff Foxworthy

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

Stanley Donwood

#10. 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.

Stanley Donwood

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

Stanley Donwood

#12. So when it came to a female of worth like Ehlena, he was always going to be on the far side of the glass, nose pressed up hard, palms spread with need, never getting close enough to tough. It was only fair to her.

J.R. Ward

#13. Loyalty is just the wheels on the bus ... meaning that it keeps things moving but it's neutral when it comes to the direction they move in.

M.R. Carey

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

Stanley Donwood

#15. The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

Tariq Ramadan

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

Stanley Donwood

#17. A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

Maurice Maeterlinck

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

Stanley Donwood

#19. 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.

Stanley Donwood

#20. The music is a continuing thing.

Stanley Donwood

#21. 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.

Stanley Donwood