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Quotes About Advertising

His dreams are like commercials.
~ Jack Johnson
Promotion and perception are synonymous twins of art marketing.
~ Jack White
When advertising is great, it's transcendent. It's art.
~ Jared Leto
The art of dying graciously is nowhere advertised, in spite of the fact that its market potential is great.
~ Unknown
Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.
~ Peter York
A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I've had it-the agencies, the winking, the networks, the ratings. Anyone who thinks TV is an art medium is crazy-it's an advertising medium.
~ Robert Altman
Advertising and art are getting all mixed up. I think some of the most exciting pieces of TV are the commercials.
~ The Edge
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
~ Marshall McLuhan
I think we should do more advertising. In the press and online.
~ Danielle Steel
Noha Hamed, twenty-four, a worker at an advertising agency in Cairo, made her views clear as she demonstrated in Tahrir Square: "We are suffering from corruption, oppression and bad education.
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
for there was no local news, there were no journalists—all of that wiped out by social media, the advertising apocalypse and, more than anything else, the war on subjectivity—
~ Dave Eggers
With great difficulty, Hall managed to extract Commander William James, who had been his second-in-command on Queen Mary. James had the nickname 'Bubbles', because it was well known in the navy that he had been, as a curly-haired child, the original for the famous Millais painting of the boy blowing soap bubbles, which was used eventually for advertising Pears Soap.
~ David Boyle
Where do they get these giant flags? What happens to them when there's no campaign? Where do they go? Where do you even store flags that size? Or is there maybe just one, which McCain2000's advance team has to take down afterward and hurtle with to the next THM to get it put up before McCain and the cameras arrive? Do Gore and the Shrub and all the other candidates each have their own giant flag?)
~ David Foster Wallace
An ad that pretends to be art is—at absolute best—like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. This
~ David Foster Wallace
Advertising that makes fun of itself is so powerful because it implicitly congratulates both itself and the viewer (for making the joke and getting the joke, respectively).
~ David Foster Wallace
No more Network reluctance to make a program too entertaining for fear its commercials would pale in comparison.
~ David Foster Wallace
you are excused from doing the work of constructing the fantasy. The ads do it for you. The ads, therefore, don't flatter your adult agency, or even ignore it—they supplant it.
~ David Foster Wallace
I pay for the privilege of handing over to trained professionals responsibility not just for my experience but for my interpretation of that experience—i.e. my pleasure. My pleasure is for 7 nights and 6.5 days wisely and efficiently managed… just as promised in the cruise line's advertising—nay, just as somehow already accomplished in the ads, with their 2nd-person imperatives, which make them not promises but predictions.
~ David Foster Wallace
That you just naturally want what we, your fathers, work night and day to make sure you want? Grow up, for Christ's sake. Join the world. We produce what makes you want to need to consume. Advertising. Laxatives. HMO's. Baking soda. Insurance. Your fears are built—and your wishes, on that foundation.
~ David Foster Wallace
These guys are always 25–30 and look 45–60 and are a better ad for sobriety at any cost than any ad agency could come up with.
~ David Foster Wallace
It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase. It just did it way more well than wisely
~ David Foster Wallace
What's good coffee taste like?" "Coffee." "What's the best coffee taste like?" "Good coffee." "What's the difference between good coffee and the best coffee?" "Advertising.
~ William Saroyan
Una campaña de publicidad: ¿había acaso trabajo más útil y más fútil, más ligero y pesado, más hábil y pendejo, todo en un mismo producto?
~ Xavier Velasco