A huge collection of quotes related to the subject of advertising and it is a selection of famous quotes by celebrities about advertisements .
Advertising
Advertising is a racket...its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
E-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up
Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.
-Stuart Henderson
Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-Alfred Hitchcock
“Dali and other surrealists manipulate and distort the mundane actuality of the world we live in to reveal the imagined world of our hidden desires. With different goals and different motives, this is exactly the conceptual space where advertising is most often at home.”
-Barry Hoffman, quoted in "The Fine Art of Advertising" (New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2002)
The trouble with America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
-Louis Kronenberger
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
-Stephen Leacock
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
-Sinclair Lewis
We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest.
-Thomas Merton
“The artist and the businessman should cultivate every opportunity to teach and supplement one another, to cooperate with one another, just as the nations of the world must do. Only in such a fusion of talents, abilities, and philosophies can there be even a modest hope for the future, a partial alleviation of the chaos and misunderstandings of today.”
-Walter Paepcke, quoted in Barry Hoffman's "The Fine Art of Advertising" (New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2002)
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
-Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
E-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up
Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.
-Stuart Henderson
Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-Alfred Hitchcock
“Dali and other surrealists manipulate and distort the mundane actuality of the world we live in to reveal the imagined world of our hidden desires. With different goals and different motives, this is exactly the conceptual space where advertising is most often at home.”
-Barry Hoffman, quoted in "The Fine Art of Advertising" (New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2002)
The trouble with America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
-Louis Kronenberger
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
-Stephen Leacock
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
-Sinclair Lewis
We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest.
-Thomas Merton
“The artist and the businessman should cultivate every opportunity to teach and supplement one another, to cooperate with one another, just as the nations of the world must do. Only in such a fusion of talents, abilities, and philosophies can there be even a modest hope for the future, a partial alleviation of the chaos and misunderstandings of today.”
-Walter Paepcke, quoted in Barry Hoffman's "The Fine Art of Advertising" (New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2002)
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
-Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court