Quotes About Advertising

It's really difficult for mainstream - let's say, cable outlets - to talk about things like income inequality, wealth inequality when the advertisers that are funding their shows are the same corporations that want to ensure that the same system continues.

Put no more than three messages on a lemonade stand. You have to describe what your product is, why it's the best, and how much it is. Don't be drawing turtles and flowers and footballs all over it, distracting people. Keep it clean.

Stronger! stronger! grow they all, Who for Coca-Cola call. Brighter! brighter! thinkers think, When they Coca-Cola drink. —Coca-Cola advertising slogan, 1896

You thought you were being sold a television, but it turns out that television is selling you.

Las Vegas is the only town in the world whose skyline is made up neither of buildings, like New York, nor of trees, like Wilbraham, Massachusetts, but signs.

How can they say Coming to a theater near you when they don't even know where you live?

So, when they say Sugar Free what they are really saying is that you don't pay extra for the sugar!

I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books, built billboards, matchbooks, corporate identities. I continuously paint, I've done conceptual art pictures.

I remember when metal was something you really had to search out, and now I hear it on car commercials.

The Americans are the nature of the future, she would announce in her hearty voice. Here's to 'em. God bless their gadgets, great and small, God bless Frigidaire, Tampax and Coca-Cola. Yes, even Coca-Cola,darling. (It was generally conceded that Coca-Cola's advertising was ruining the picturesqueness of Morocco.)

I never expected, when I had a daughter, that one of my most important jobs would be to protect her childhood from becoming a marketers' land grab.

Children as young as twelve to eighteen months can recognize brands, it went on, and are "strongly influenced" by advertising and marketing. Yikes!

The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images?

Picturesqueness is a lost art. We may expect at anytime to hear that a collar ad is blazing its electric lights atop of the largest pyramid.

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

Art doesn't sell itself, it has to be sold.

In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling.

There is no question that advertising is an art, and manipulation is the art of advertising through the medium of the tape.

Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.

The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.