Absolutes Quote by Aubrey Beardsley

We have brands spending ungodly amounts of money on print, television, outdoor radio, programmatic banner ads, website takeovers. Garbage. When I say garbage, they…

— Gary Vaynerchuk

Advertising is - quite often - alive to our real needs. It's just the products on offer might not be the things that will…

— Alain de Botton

The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves -…

— Jaron Lanier

Advertising serves not so much to advertise products as to promote consumption as a way of life. It 'educates' the masses into an unappeasable…

— Christopher Lasch

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed…

— Jaron Lanier

Advertising is a wonderful lubricant for business, if it's used properly.

— John Cullum

“If ads are about selling things, they are not only about selling things; their images can carry symbolic meanings, transmit messages, and create moods…

— John Jervis

Advertising is a non-moral force, like electricity, which not only illuminates but electrocutes. Its worth to civilization depends upon how it is used.

— J Walter Thompson

Good advertising should give the reader essential facts about the product or company advertised and should do so engagingly without trickery or hogwash.

— Leo Burnett

Once upon a time I was riding on the top of a First Avenue bus, when I heard a mythical housewife say to another,…

— David Ogilvy

Consumers know precisely what's wrong with advertising. Be it TV or print or whatever, they know that advertising is never creative enough ... never…

— Phil Dusenberry

Advertising justifies its existence when used in the public interest-it is much too powerful a tool to use solely for commercial purposes.

— Howard Gossage