Addresses Quote by Mat Collishaw

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.

— Johan Huizinga

Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at worst, repulsed.…

— John Walford

“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

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

— Michael Schudson

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

— Allen Klein

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

Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts…

— Jaron Lanier

If you could see a photograph of what it took to make an advertising photograph - things you don't think about, like the photo…

— Sandy Skoglund

Advertising is far from impotent or harmless; it is not a mere mirror image. Its power is real, and on the brink of a…

— Eric Clark

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

— Anonymous

As society becomes more complex and opaque, as social processes seem more impersonal and autonomous, and as elites of 'experts' become more annoying, more…

— George Will

The effect of the advertising way of thinking on our brains, and how we live on our planet, is very disturbing. It's not a…

— Mark Hosler