Quotes About Advertising

What we see is what they're trying to sell us. It's not true nostalgic as much as it is repeating old material because it's less expensive than new material.

Although advertised as 'invite only', it has been reported by Forbes Council members and invitees that this 'invite' came with a membership fee.

If Madison Avenue advertising executives were to pick a song that would best represent America, the last one they would choose is 'The Star Spangled Banner.'

If I can convince people that good people don't do attack ads, and that we want good people to represent us, then the attack ads work against themselves.

News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

The marketing of anything is full of exploitation and lies and hype.

We have always said that advertising is just the icing on the cake. It is not the cake.

Wonderbra is such an iconic brand with strong design values and great sense of humour.

The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.

I was the first advertising person who people could identify with.

Shortly after my dad died, my mom figured that if I could do a few commercials, I'd get a college fund.

Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.

The argument that most lawmakers make about graffiti is that it's illegal because it's an eyesore, but you could easily argue that a lot of advertising is an eyesore.

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion and imagery.

We're always bombarded with images from magazines of what looks cool and sexy.

All businesses need images to sell their products and services.

I don't know what a world would be like if you do away with sexy images.

If anything, Calvin Klein is the iconic company in terms of fashion. They do have iconic images for their campaigns.

The best ways of marketing were email and banner advertising, but I needed images... and they were very expensive.

We live in a media saturated world. I'm sure artists of the past would have dealt with it in just the same way. If you're in the business of communication and images, then if you ignore the media-sphere you're just cutting off your own foot. It's just daft.

I always imagined how cool it would be to be the face of a Gap campaign!

When advertisers ignore diversity, it is because they don't think the lives of others matter. There is not enough of a financial imperative for those lives to matter.

The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it.