Don Watson Quotes

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

  Don Watson

  Together, Language, Translations

  Don Watson (2003). “Death sentence: the decay of public language”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Jargon is making it increasingly hard to understand what a public figure is actually trying to say

  Don Watson

  Trying, Jargon, Figures

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• The managerial class has forced on us a public language that makes no sense

  Don Watson

  Class, Language

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• Language is butchered by the media

  Don Watson

  Media, Language

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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.

  Don Watson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Trying

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• I like having my own style; love my work or hate my work, it's my own.

  Don Watson

  Hate, Style, Working It

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• It is part of the business of marketing to muddy the distinction between altruism and cynicism.

  Don Watson

  Marketing, Language, Cynicism

  Don Watson (2006). “Death Sentences: How Cliches, Weasel Words and Management-Speak Are Strangling Public Language”, Gotham

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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

  Artist, Hands, Creative

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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.

  Don Watson

  Years, Skins, Criticism

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• Exaggerated passion combined with enthusiasm has the ingredients to make a prolific artist.

  Don Watson

  Passion, Artist, Enthusiasm

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