It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.
I'm not so arrogant to consider mine the only legitimate art form. I can't in one breath make a fuss about someone compartmentalizing music into genre and then in the next accuse advertising and short film of not being art.
There is no such thing as a permanent advertising success.
My mother [was in advertising and] worked incredibly hard when she was bringing us up. She was a working mother and a working single parent.
What frightens me about America today is that in the large majority there is no active sense of the value of the individual: few citizens feel that they are the Republic, responsible for what happens. And when the individual in a democracy ceases to feel his importance, then there is grave danger that he will give over his freedom, if not to a Fascist State, then to the advertising men or Publicity Agents or to the newspaper he happens to read.
News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.
It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
I thought, I can't do advertising any more, so I was downloading all these PDF applications from community colleges. And I thought, I'll become a paramedic. I'll get a two-year associate degree, if I can get in.
Advertising is a tax for having an unremarkable product
I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would probably be a tremendous reservoir for everybody involved in advertising.
That business aspect of the media, that Charlotte Street world, the advertising and programme executives, it leaves me absolutely cold. I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen.
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument, its function is to make the worse appear the better article. A confused competition of all propagandas -- those insults to human nature -- is carried on by the most expert psychological methods -- for instance, by always repeating a lie.
Advertising shouldn't be like medicine. It should be like candy.
We do not invest in advertising. . . So racing is the best advertising for Ferrari.
Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.
In general, advertising isn't a "creative" atmosphere. It's a business atmosphere and your job is puzzle solving. My favorite aspect of the business, I guess, was presenting to clients. What I enjoyed least were the clients. Worried corporate brand managers, trying to dumb-down their ads for the stupid American population. I hated the disrespect that these people had for "consumers. "
Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?
I don't think there is enough educational programming, but unfortunately, television is built around advertising and those shows don't get the big ratings.
The tricks and artifices of advertising are available to the seller of the better product no less than to the seller of the poorer product. But only the former enjoys the advantage derived from the better quality of his product.
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.