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…

— Stanley Donwood

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

— Stanley Donwood

I liked taking the elements of roadside advertising out of context because it removes the imperative and just goes to the essence…

— 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 newspapers. They are disposable. They are recyclable. They fall apart so easily. They are not like iPads or Kindles…

— Stanley Donwood

The packaging for music has become a sort of King James Bible, where it elevates the contents to something more spiritual. This…

— 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…

— 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…

— Stanley Donwood

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

— Stanley Donwood

“I am disturbed to discover that my colleagues have invented a new game which seems to involve attempting to kill me in…

— Stanley Donwood

The music is a continuing thing.

— Stanley Donwood

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

— Stanley Donwood

I love going somewhere like Japan where you can't understand a word of the advertising - you just see it for its…

— 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…

— Stanley Donwood

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

— Stanley Donwood

There's something unsettling about being continually sold something.

— Stanley Donwood

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

— Stanley Donwood