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Advertising Quotes by Marshall McLuhan
- Ads are carefully designed by the Madison Avenue frog-men of-the-mind for semiconscious exposure.
- The copy of an ad is merely a punning gag to distract the critical faculties while the image of the product goes to work on…
- An expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into the composition of…
- All advertising advertises advertising.
- Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
- Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward…
- Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.
- The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in…
- Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.
More Advertising Quotes
- People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. — Isaac Asimov
- It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising,… — Isaac Asimov
- Just advertising departments with legs and high heels. — Richard Avedon
- In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity. — Lauren Bacall
- I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip… — Alan Ball
- The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing… — Henry Adams
- In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to. — Bruce Barton
- Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved -… — Jean Baudrillard
- Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art. — William Bernbach
- The most powerful element in advertising is the truth. — William Bernbach
- Today's smartest advertising style is tomorrow's corn. — William Bernbach
- Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know who… — William Bernbach