Don Watson quotes
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“Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know.”
-- Don WatsonSource : Don Watson (2003). “Death sentence: the decay of public language”, Alfred A. Knopf
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“It is part of the business of marketing to muddy the distinction between altruism and cynicism.”
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“I remember trying not to disrupt everyone else in the room, fumbling around trying to figure out how to use the medium with a beautiful model disrobed in front of me...”
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“Gift to the creative artist: positive images in, positive images out. On the other hand, garbage in, garbage out.”
-- Don Watson -
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“I ask myself, 'Do you want to sit on the sidelines of life or do you want to be on the field?' I suppose all those years of building thicker skin has made it easy to endure criticism.”
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“Exaggerated passion combined with enthusiasm has the ingredients to make a prolific artist.”
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“I like having my own style; love my work or hate my work, it's my own.”
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“Jargon is making it increasingly hard to understand what a public figure is actually trying to say”
-- Don Watson -
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“The managerial class has forced on us a public language that makes no sense”
-- Don Watson
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