Donwood Quotes & Sayings

In 1904, the newly created Los Angeles Department of Water and Power issued its first public report. 'The time has come,' it said, 'when we shall have to supplement the supply from another source.' With that simple statement, William Mulholland was about to become a modern Moses. But instead of leading his people to the promised land, he would cleave the desert and lead the promised waters to them. — Marc Reisner

We need to get behind the surface appearances if we are to act coherently in the world. Otherwise, acting in response to misleading surface signals typically produces disastrous outcomes. — David Harvey

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 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

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

The whole point of a top secret invisible guard," Deathbringer said severely, "is for them to be invisible and secret. Therefore it is extremely unhelpful for certain queens to go pointing them out and discussing them loudly with the entire rainforest. — Tui T. Sutherland

A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time. — E.B. White

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

I became interested in film making at around 16, when I discovered a friend of mine had a HI 8 camera which belonged to his father, which we were forbidden to use. — John Carney

I grew up in the 80s and that was the first time advertising was considered seriously as anything resembling an art form. — 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'm trying to be slightly happier with myself. No one really wants to be miserable all the time. — 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 am thoroughly convinced that when the last chapter of humanity is written, we will find that the implications of atheism, i.e., living without God, if consistently carried through, will
have made life plainly unlivable within the limits of reason or even common sense — Ravi Zacharias

When you meet a man in the doorway of a Mexican restaurant who later kisses you while explaining that this kiss doesn't "mean anything" because, much as he likes you, he is not interested in having a relationship with you or anyone right now, just laugh and kiss him back. Your daughter will have his sense of humor. Your son will have his eyes. — Cheryl Strayed

The music is a continuing thing. — 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

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

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

Failure instructs better than success. A single death shapes the surgeon's psyche in a way that fifty "saves" cannot. — Frank T. Vertosick Jr.

Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret. — Big Pun

Where there is no 'superior', no underhand; such is the moksha [ultimate liberation] of the Vitaraag Lords [the enlightened ones] that I would like to have. — Dada Bhagwan