WINSTON CHURCHILL: Short Words are the Best
June 9, 2012
He was a painter, too, you know. A great world leader and an incredible writer, Winston Churchill, certainly knew how to communicate visually. Surely, he would have been able to navigate his way around a subject with a camera. His “V” for victory fingers are a 20th century icon—it doesn’t get much more visual than that.
And here is this great communicator telling us to keep things simple and trust the tried and true. Eliminate the extraneous elements that don’t add anything but distracting fluff. The simple old good stuff still goes right to the center of what we love about being human. Sound familiar. What? You thought I came up with this stuff?
World War II history tells us that Churchill knew what was important and how to inspire people to get there. It’s certainly worth our time to take a photo lesson from the Greatest Britain of All Time—he was voted such in a nation-wide BBC poll.
Simple, bold and direct. Painting by Winston Churchill.
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seriously? that is a painting? I thought you were going to say he was a photographer.
Ditto Charlene’s comment. I thought it was a photo at first. I am learning so much from you. All these little tid bits that add dimension to my life.
My favorite Winston Churchill quote is when Lady Astor was arguing against him in Parliament, and finally said to him: “Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your tea!”, to which his reply was: “If you were my wife, I would drink it!”