Stanley Donwood Quotes

#1. Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

Jean De La Fontaine

#2. We are, in many respects, in a moral and spiritual free-fall in our country, and we are paying a terrible price.

Joel C. Rosenberg

#3. 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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#4. The music is a continuing thing.

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#5. I think my films are always quite self-reflexive and always question 'why am I doing this, is this the right way to do it, what is cinema for, does it have a purpose?'

Peter Greenaway

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

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#8. Confused by the mind and diffused by the senses, we seek Pleasure and lose the great Treasure called Life.-RVM

R.v.m.

#9. Explore the timeless wonders of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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#11. I've worked with five Presidents in America, all of them I ask the same question always: Why didn't the American allies bomb the railways going to Auschwitz?

Elie Wiesel

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

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#13. From paradise to paradise I go sweeping; collecting rocks & views; owning nothing but what I feel.

Alice Walker

#14. 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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#15. My dream is to do things until 'I have no regrets'

Lee Taemin

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

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

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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. 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

#23. I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

Ang Lee