Advertising Quote by Stavros Cosmopulos

You can do a good ad without good typography, but you can't do a great ad without good typography.

— Herb Lubalin

Sometimes a beautiful face is false advertising

— Amy Harmon

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

— Clement Greenberg

A face, no matter how pretty, can look very artificial if plastered with heavy duty makeup.

— Mazher (@mazher50

I believe sans serif typefaces - today upheld as models of neutrality and legibility - were called "Grotesques" in the 19th century because people…

— Michael Bierut

Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly ugly work…

— Walter Darby Bannard

“There is really only one way to restore a world that is dying and in disrepair: to make beauty where ugliness has set in.…

— Toko-pa Turner

Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know who are impeccably…

— William Bernbach

There is no idea so bad that it cannot be made to look brilliant with the proper application of fonts and color.

— Scott Adams

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

— Jean Rostand

If I have done anything, it is to make ugly appealing. In fact, most of my work is concerned with destroying—or at least deconstructing—conventional…

— Miuccia Prada

The spectacle of advertising creates images of false beauty so suave and so impossible to attain that you will hurt inside and never even…

— Robert Montgomery