Quotes on Advertising

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.

Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men.

Advertising tends to be most effective in jogging finally into action those people who are well-enough disposed towards a product, but have not yet got around to buying it.

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

All I wanted and all Neal wanted and all anybody wanted was some kind of penetration into the heart of things where, like in a womb, we could curl up and sleep the ecstatic sleep that Burroughs was experiencing with a good big mainline shot of M. and advertising executives in NY were experiencing with twelve Scotch & Sodas in Stouffers before they made the drunkard's train to Westchester---but without hangovers.

Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.

Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.

The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.