Advertising Quotes

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Bless advertising art for its pictorial vitality and verbal creativity.

Marshall McLuhan

The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people.

James Randolph Adams

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

Calvin Coolidge

Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing.

In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase.

I had a special project to do a campaign for a Philadelphia politician named Arlen Spector (sic). When do I get to see Arlen Spector? I asked. You don't. Spector was a district attorney in Philadelphia, running for mayor. He wanted New York advertising but he had placed through a Philadelphia agency. I complained about not being able to see Arlen Spector. Are you crazy? his people said. Nobody gets to meet Arlen Spector. We can't even see him. All right, I said, what's Arlen Spector for? Arlen Spector is for getting elected. All right, I said, what's Arlen Spector against? Arlen Spector is against losing. I did the campaign, but Arlen Spector lost.

Jerry Della Femina

Subliminal perception is a subject that virtually no one wants to believe exists, and - if it does exist - they much less believe that it has any practical application.... The techniques are in widespread use by media, advertising and public relations agencies, industrial and commercial corporations, and by the Federal government itself.

Wilson Bryan Key

Urban public space is a stage for viewing the field of graphic design in its diversity. A mix of voices, from advertising to activism, compete for visibility.

Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

Jerry Della Femina

Politics is not really politics any more. It is run, for the most part, by Madison Avenue advertising firms, who sell politicians to the public the way they sell bars of soap or cans of beer.

Helen Caldicott

The methods by which the "Empire of Business" maintains its control over journalism are four: First, ownership of the papers; second, ownership of the owners; third, advertising subsidies; and fourth, direct bribery. By these methods there exists in America a control of news and of current comment more absolute than any monopoly in any other industry.

I complain about the United States not being Athens. I certainly say we are a very good Roman republic, and the lies are based upon the most advanced techniques of advertising, which is the only art form my country has ever created—the television commercial—and we sell soap and presidents in the same fashion. Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to bring the truth back.

There is much to indicate that modern publication wishes to minimize discussion. … For one thing, there is the technique of display, with its implied evaluations. This does more of the average man's thinking for him than he suspects. For another, there is the stereotyping of whole phrases. These are carefully chosen not to stimulate reflection, but to evoke stock responses of approbation or disapprobation. Headlines and advertising teem with them, and we seem to approach a point at which failure to make the stock response is regarded as faintly treasonable. … Journalism becomes a monstrous discourse of Protagoras, which charms by hypnotizing and thwarts that participation without which one is not a thinking man.

The more advertising I see, the less I want to buy.

It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game.

To be a success in advertising you must want to fill other people with a passion for possession.

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

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Advertising is the poetry of Capitalism

Michael Maynard

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.

It is very likely that many firms spend more on advertising than, for their own best interests, they should.

Michael Schudson

It got me so excited that I did what the cliché says you're supposed to do: I jumped out of bed and paced the floor. That morning I went to my job at the advertising agency and wrote out the first chapter in longhand.... One year later, after much planning, I began chapter two.

I like words — strike that I love words — and while I am fond of the condensed and economical use of them in poetry, in song lyrics, in Twitter, in good journalism and smart advertising, I love the luxuriant profusion and mad scatter of them too.

I never thought I honestly would make a living out of it. I did cartoons for the high school paper and then the college paper and then when I got out I was working in advertising. I was just a pay-stub artist, a layout artist, but I got to meet Tom Ryan, who does the Tumbleweeds comic strip. He lived in Muncie and I asked him how he got started and he liked my stuff and asked me to be his assistant. This was back in 1969.

Jim Davis (cartoonist)

My dad worked in advertising — he was a creative director — and my mom was an English teacher. I think they were thrilled that I was interested in doing something creative and they lent me their camera — which you know, I wound up breaking.

Christopher Nolan

Good advertising can make people buy your product even if it sucks... A dollar spent on brainwashing is more cost-effective than a dollar spent on product improvement.

In this day and age, love is temporary and marriage is unnatural--the product of Madison Avenue advertising executives and television producers.

Michael Palmer (novelist)