Stanley Donwood Quotes

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.

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."

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.

The music is a continuing thing.

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

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

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.

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.

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