Don Watson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know.
-- Don Watson

#Together #Language #Translations
It is part of the business of marketing to muddy the distinction between altruism and cynicism.
-- Don Watson

#Marketing #Language #Cynicism
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...
-- Don Watson

#Beauty #Beautiful #Trying
Gift to the creative artist: positive images in, positive images out. On the other hand, garbage in, garbage out.
-- Don Watson

#Artist #Hands #Creative
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.
-- Don Watson

#Years #Criticism #Skins
Exaggerated passion combined with enthusiasm has the ingredients to make a prolific artist.
-- Don Watson

#Passion #Artist #Enthusiasm
I like having my own style; love my work or hate my work, it's my own.
-- Don Watson

#Hate #Style #Working It
Jargon is making it increasingly hard to understand what a public figure is actually trying to say
-- Don Watson

#Trying #Jargon #Figures
The managerial class has forced on us a public language that makes no sense
-- Don Watson

#Class #Language
Language is butchered by the media
-- Don Watson

#Media #Language

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