Stanley Donwood Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

The music is a continuing thing.

There's something unsettling about being continually sold something.

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.

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.

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.