Stanley Donwood Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The music is a continuing thing. — Stanley Donwood

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

I'm trying to be slightly happier with myself. No one really wants to be miserable all the time. — Stanley Donwood

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

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

I really love it when you get that strange combination of feelings that play against each other. — Stanley Donwood

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

I really love newspapers. They are disposable. They are recyclable. They fall apart so easily. They are not like iPads or Kindles that can't be disposed of and end up on some third-world shore. And I love the heritage of them, the whole history of mass communication. Newspapers changed the world from being a really class based, feudal system to people being able to cheaply get information that informed them. — Stanley Donwood