Ads Quote by Marshall McLuhan

Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.

— Marshall McLuhan

I usually turn over when ads appear on television. But - very rarely - I am gripped by a particularly beautiful one, and wonder…

— Alice Roberts

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

— Marshall McLuhan

We do a wealth of stuff (live), drawing from over the years.

— Jorma Kaukonen

In every human society of which we know - prehistoric, ancient or modern, whether hunter-gatherer, pastoral, agricultural or industrial - at least some form…

— Ellen Dissanayake

“At the start of the twenty-first century, the advertising industry is guiding one of history's most massive stealth efforts in social profiling.”

— Joseph Turow

What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things…

— Ann Bridge

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

— Roger Caras

“The most advertised commodity is not always intrinsically the best; but is sometimes merely the product of a company, with plenty of money to…

— Emily Post

When advertising is great, it's transcendent. It's art.

— Jared Leto

The truly awesome intellectuals in our history have not merely made discoveries; they have woven variegated, but firm, tapestries of comprehensive coverage. The tapestries…

— Stephen Jay Gould

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism -…

— Andy Warhol