Quote by Kevin Simler

Advertising is about norms and values, aspirations and prejudices. It is about culture.

— Anil Ambani

“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 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

Ads sell more than products. They sell values, they sell images. They sell concepts of love and sexuality, of success and perhaps most important,…

— Jean Kilbourne

Advertising, as a single entity capable of creating vast changes in our social structure, simply does not exist. Its impact is too diffuse, too…

— Prince William of Hesse-Kassel

Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and…

— Calvin Coolidge

“Advertising is a craft executed by people who aspire to be artists, but is assessed by those who aspire to be scientists. I cannot…

— Luke Sullivan

The secret of all effective advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and…

— Leo Burnett

“Appealing to our subconscious emotions rather than our conscious intellects, advertisements are designed to exploit the discontentments fostered by the American dream, the constant…

— Sonia Maasik

“This background enables us to understand a fact that is symptomatic of the current phase of saturation: there are countless people who want to…

— Peter Sloterdijk

The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar…

— Leo Burnett

The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through…

— Theodor Adorno