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

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

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

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

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

Don Watson
Hate, Style, Working It

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

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, Skins, Criticism

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

Don Watson
Passion, Artist, Enthusiasm

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