Advertising Quote by Johan Huizinga

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.

— Anonymous

“Advertising is profoundly manipulative at its core. Its imagery strives to deprive us of realistic ideas about love, sex, beauty, health, money, work, and…

— Jennifer L. Pozner

When you think about advertisements, it makes sense that they want to hold and retain our attention.

— Allen Klein

Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed.

— Maurice Saatchi

The advertising industry is one of our most basic forms of communication and, allegedly, of information. Yet, obviously, much of this ostensible information is…

— Marvin E. Frankel

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

The greatest damage done by advertising is precisely that it incessantly demonstrates the prostitution of men and women who lend their intellects, their voices,…

— Paul Baran

Advertising is the art of persuasion.

— William Bernbach

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises,…

— Samuel Johnson

The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived, less from the…

— Marston Bates

Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public.

— Michael Schudson

Every really good creative person in advertising has always had two noticeable characteristics. First, there was no subject he could not easily get interested…

— James Webb Young