Advertising Quote by Otto Neurath

Modern photography must do more than entertain, it must incite thought and by its clear statements of actuality, cultivate a sympathetic understanding of men…

— Max Dupain

The dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, by extension, film and video. The basilisk eye of the camera has…

— Peter Schjeldahl

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

— Edward Steichen

Photography has saturated us as spectators from its inception amidst a mingling of laboratorial pursuits and magic acts to its current status as propagator…

— Barbara Kruger

Over the years, advertising had become very lazy, very visual. Visuals are important, yes, but as a part of the story.

— David Droga

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

— Marshall McLuhan

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

— Andy Warhol

“The commercial media … help citizens feel as if they are successful and have met these aspirations, even if they have not. They tend…

— Chris Hedges

More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While it…

— Beaumont Newhall

Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.

— Cornell Capa

Photography works upon the human eye: what is seen is reflected in the brain without the need for complicated thought. In this way the…

— Willi Munzenberg

[Cameras] tend to turn people into things and the photograph extends and multiplies the human image to the proportions of mass-produced merchandise and, [in…

— Marshall McLuhan